[ajb257]

> Facebook is going to get done in by the fact that the younger generation doesn't like it

All the younger generation I know are big users of Instagram and WhatsApp - both FB properties.

[dlwdlw]

Yea, Facebook had admitted to missing mobile and the WhatsApp purchase was driven very much by the knowledge that the for platform was losing streak.

[reitanqild]

Around here most of my friends have moved from WhatsApp to Telegram after Facebook aquired WhatsApp.

Instagram is fairly popular as well but WhatsApp never really went mainstream.

[varelse]

Indeed, he is killing his darling before someone else can.

No interest in working there personally because I despise both PHP and working in an open office, but I don't think the Zuckerberg brand of fine social content is going away any time soon.

[TomMarius]

I literally don't know anyone who uses Whatsapp, only Messenger. These things are very different across the world.

[antisocial]

I live in the U.S. I use Whatsapp to connect with family members in another country. I have a Facebook account just for my informal HOA community posts. I have zero fb friends. I hope my HOA finds another means to communicate.

[arctron]

https://www.statista.com/statistics/280914/monthly-active-wh...

[johnchristopher]

I read on HN Brazil has a vibrant WhatsApp community of users. Doctors confirming appointments, hospital sending stuff, etc. That kind of things.

[lucasverra]

Whatsapp is the market leader in mobile (and desktop) IM in LATAM & EU. YMMV but I would go with ~75-80%

[TomMarius]

Do they have more granular data? I guess they're more prevalent in Western Europe (I read about people from Spain or Italy being all on).

[craigmi]

different indeed, everyone I know in Ireland uses it.

[lzy]

WhatsApp absolutely dominates SEA too.