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by darreninthenet 595 days ago
But dominant doesn't mean it's the only one... most of my friends are on WhatsApp, but I use iMessage to talk to my wife (unless it's a group of friends then it's back to WhatsApp), apart from one or two friends who aren't o ln WhatsApp and then I use FB messenger... we have one gaming group with one guy not on FB and one guy not on WhatsApp, so I'm the meatware bridge between them.

And then I have people who only use Discord...

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> But dominant doesn't mean it's the only one

It often does. Check out these statistics:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1311229/whatsapp-usage-m...

This is likely a huge underestimate too. They put UK at 71% but in practice it's used by everyone. You'd be a weirdo not to have WhatsApp in the UK, like not owning a smartphone.

> most of my friends are on WhatsApp, but I use iMessage to talk to my wife [...] apart from one or two friends who aren't o ln WhatsApp [...]

As shown in a more visual way: https://xkcd.com/1810/