Can you easily communicate in your country (business/private life) without being involuntarily forced to use whatsapp?
... is it possible to do any kind of business and/or have regular conversations without having to use whatsapp as a main way of communication?
If you'd like you can say in what country you're living.
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Yes? And America? Wtf kinda country forces whatsapp?
I don't think the implication is that the government is forcing anyone to use WhatsApp, but that in some places it controls enough share of the messaging market that people are forced to use it because that's what everyone else is using.
No one said it is forced. It ia relatable to me as I live in East Europe and all my people use WhatsApp. It really is the main way of communication.
Businesses also use WhatsApp. Like boutique or handmade good stores, to have special requests or, for anything you can name as a conversation.
We have family group in WhatsApp. Any special occasion or events, we communicate on that group.
Like, 10-15 years before, it was MSN or equivalents. It evolved to WhatsApp. Telegram, too.
edit: Sorry I misread the title :) But I still don't think people are forced to use WhatsApp. This is the way it goes.
The OP uses the word forced in the title
Yeah but one can infer that it's not a literal governmental force but a societal force
Thank God we’ve kept the Reddit tradition of not reading the article, the comment, or the post title.
I was starting to miss that.
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Isn't it so cool? It keeps me motivated to argue.
Yeah, like context and reading comprehension. Are we still doing that?
I instantly edited my comment when I re-read the title to check if op actually said "forced". Thanks for reading my full comment.
Remember when it used to be $0.10 or like a quarter per sms message or something ridiculous? Back when you didn't have a proper web browser etc on your phone. You know before smartphones were a thing. The companies were able to hold us hostage for text messaging etc because of that.
Now imagine you live in a country where they tried to do that post smartphone's. Everyone in those countries de facto turned to alternate services like WhatsApp for texting and even calling. So it wasn't like a government mandated thing. But it was more of an effective mandate because of carriers. This includes most of the world outside the United States. Over in Europe. WhatsApp is common for this very reason. South America again same thing. All because of carriers trying to overcharge but forgetting the internet had become a thing in everyone's life.