[retired]

Meanwhile in Spain I use WhatsApp to contact the municipality, the GP uses it to send my blood results and package delivery drivers ask me to share my location. I hate it.

[mschild]

Why not delete it? I assume that if you don't have it, they offer some other form of communication with you?

[reedciccio]

Yes, they do but they require walking to their office and deal with paper or call them during ever shrinking office hours. Take your poison.

[jagged-chisel]

Pick your poison.

“Take” sounds too threatening.

[amelius]

"Inject" is clearly the right word here.

[dp-hackernews]

Actually...

Shakespeare’s Othello (c. 1603‑1604)

Iago says to Othello: “Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, / … O, thou wilt choose thy poison, and be damned!”

[amelius]

Shakespeare did not have to deal with today's tech problems.

[retired]

Thanks for typing the exact reply I wanted to give! Yes, I’m happy that I can request garbage pickup through WhatsApp instead of having to fill out a form at the municipal building. An online portal or app would be even better than WhatsApp.

[amelius]

Very funny.

[dizhn]

The 2016 coup attempt in Turkey was organized entirely on whatsapp. All of the conversations were recovered from multiple phones too.

[tsimionescu]

Would you rather they used Teams? Or what would be a better alternative? Phone / email?

[retired]

Some secure online portal would be nice for the GP or municipality.

The delivery issues can be solved by introducing a standardized address system for Spain but that would take decades to roll out. Some people I know don’t even have an address, they just use the land registry number. Or just the name of their village + surnames, which is typically good enough for the standard mail (but not good enough for DHL/UPS/DPD packages, their drivers want your location via WhatsApp)