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[-] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

WhatsApp seems to be something only foreigners and drug dealers use in my experience. What's the appeal?

[-] Deathsservant@feddit.de 15 points 1 year ago

You know, when you're one of those foreigners whose peers all exclusively use WhatsApp, be it child or grandparent, that's a pretty big appeal. To me, you're the weird foreigner who doesn't use WhatsApp ;)

[-] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Fair enough, I'm just saying locally no one uses it except really sketchy people who get weird looks when they ask if anyone has it. It's pretty much either Facebook Messenger or Snapchat around these parts.

[-] clmbmb@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 year ago

You're american, right? And you use an iPhone, right?

[-] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Yes and no. I hate Apple, but it's definitely the dominate force around here, everyone has one.

[-] clmbmb@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

You won my trust, partly.

[-] 10EXP@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

Facebook Messenger or Snapchat

…that’s somehow worse than WhatsApp.

[-] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

I never said that? I don't even know what it looks like because it's so uncommon here, lol.

[-] 10EXP@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Apologies if I was unclear: I was making a statement that by using FB Messenger and Snapchat, the people there have, imho, somehow found worse chat apps to be using for privacy and security than even WhatsApp.

[-] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

I don't think the gen pop thinks about privacy and security with their messaging apps here.

[-] aeki@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 year ago

'Foreigners' to where? The US?

I don't use WhatsApp at all, but it irks me when 'foreigner' is used on the internet as if 'we' are all in a single country.

You're a foreigner to me.

[-] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Yes. I am a foreigner to you. I'm saying, people who emigrate here seem to use it. I'm sorry I didn't type out "people who emigrate here" and used a shorthand term, hopefully someday you can forgive me.

[-] nora@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 year ago

Where is here? You never said where you're talking about.

[-] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago

It's okay, you'll get over not having the answer to where a stranger lives on a thread that's a week old.

[-] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago

Nahhhh drug dealers use Signal.

[-] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Never even heard of that one.

[-] mulcahey@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I hope you're not buying drugs from someone then

[-] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Not these days, weeds at the store now, my man.

[-] nosnahc@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago
[-] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

It’s awesome.

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