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[–] Poob 7 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Real talk, is WhatsApp more than just a text message replacement to people? I see it get brought up in talks about social media and I get very confused.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

In a lot of countries, entire businesses rely on it as a complimentary and necessary form of quick internal communication. Easy to form groups and share images/videos on the fly.

Overseas the app is the main platform for people to stay connected through text and voice messages too.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

This. I do a lot of consulting for Korean companies and they live out of WhatsApp for all their business comms/file sharing similar to Slack.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

India has a real issue of forwarding misinformation on WhatsApp. And people getting added to group chats like telegram channels

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

You can post stories on WhatsApp.