• ladfrombrad 🇬🇧@lemdro.idM
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    1 year ago

    And I’m conveying your blind spot which seems to be that you can’t function in this society without WhatsApp, which I’ve done since its inception.

    And I’m sure I will perform equally well as yourself and others going into the future without it.

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      1 year ago

      But you and I don’t seem to be in the same society.

      This is a heavily regional issue, which is my entire point. There is no iMessage alternative, we aren’t in a WeChat area, or a Telegram area. Here it’s overwhelmingly Whatsapp.

      This is not the same everywhere. Social media is global, but the mix of it is far from universal.

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        1 year ago

        Messaging others is not “social media”, and you conflating that with using a messaging app is fairly telling.

        I don’t intend to nor use iMessage.

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          1 year ago

          But it is, is the point.

          Like, here it is.

          Whatsapp (and Telegram, Facebook Messenger, WeChat, Line… whatever is your local poison) have absorbed texting entirely. Whatsapp drives all texting, a significant chunk of voice calls, a lot of non-work videoconferencing and it serves as a Discord-like group chat platform for a lot of people. That’s how your grandma got radicalized over here, not Facebook proper.

          Again, social media is more regional than people think, and it often doesn’t look like Twitter, Instagram or even Facebook.