Meta pushed a WhatsApp update that replaces the soccer ball ⚽ with the FIFA corruption cup soccer ball by Adidas

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[–] 77 points 4 months ago (13 children)

Because most of the world is already on WhatsApp, and changing to Signal would isolate you from most people and businesses.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (7 children)

    Must be more popular in your country, in Canada I don't know a single person on whatsapp

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  • [–] 19 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    It's very big in western Europe. Here in the Netherlands everybody is on WhatsApp pretty much since it's creation

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    I think the whole europe except some countries

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

    never heard anyone use whatsapp in sweden, everyone is expected to use something that supports sms as a fallback. Usually facebook messenger or whatever the iphone thing is called.

    Far as i know the only popular truly separate platform would be something like snapchat or kik or whatever, which is used by teenagers.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah they're all on Facebook Messenger which sucks. I've managed to switch a few in my surroundings to Signal but I still need to keep Messenger for holdouts.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago

    Thankfully I have managed to get everyone to switch from Messenger to Signal, atleast for talking to me haha. Two other family members being privacy oriented too really helped getting the rest of the family moved over.

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