Comment on Can you easily communicate in your country (business/private life) without being involuntarily forced to use whatsapp?

Blamemeta@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• roterkern70@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  No one said it is forced. It ia relatable to me as I live in East Europe and all my people use WhatsApp. It really is the main way of communication.

  Businesses also use WhatsApp. Like boutique or handmade good stores, to have special requests or, for anything you can name as a conversation.

  We have family group in WhatsApp. Any special occasion or events, we communicate on that group.

  Like, 10-15 years before, it was MSN or equivalents. It evolved to WhatsApp. Telegram, too.

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  • tcrpz@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    No one said it is forced The OP uses the word forced in the title

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    • smallaubergine@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yeah but one can infer that it's not a literal governmental force but a societal force

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    • brimnac@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Thank God we’ve kept the tradition of “not reading” the article, the comment, or the post from Reddit.

      I was starting to miss that.

      /s

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      • roterkern70@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Isn’t it so cool? It keeps me motivated to argue.

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    • roterkern70@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I instantly edited my comment when I re-read the title to check if op actually said “forced”. Thanks for reading my full comment.

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• grte@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I don’t think the implication is that the government is forcing anyone to use WhatsApp, but that in some places it controls enough share of the messaging market that people are forced to use it because that’s what everyone else is using.

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