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Why do most people choose to use WhatsApp over telegram?? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Frub@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Telegram is just actually superior in terms of features I don't get it.

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[–] peter@feddit.uk 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Most people don't care that it's owned by Meta. They just want to be on the platform everyone else is on.

[–] Frub@lemm.ee -4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What I'm asking is why is everyone on that platform already when they have better alternatives

[–] Kraiden@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Because whatsapp came first.

[–] blivet@artemis.camp 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yes, everyone I know outside the US uses it. If I understand correctly years ago in a lot of countries SMS was either very costly or unavailable, while WhatsApp was free.

[–] ominouslemon@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Also, WhatsApp allowed people to send pictures and stuff. Effectively, it has replaced SMS, MMS, and MSN Messenger. There was a brief period where people would still communicate via Facebook chat on PC, but once smarphones became prevalent WhatsApp won the battle (except in the US, which is something I've never been able to understand)

[–] mayonaise_met@feddit.nl 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah I think I was paying €0.09 throughout a lot of the 2000s. I switched to WhatsApp in 2010 I think, when I got an iPhone.

Was WhatsApp ever on those late 2000s Nokia s Symbian phones?

[–] danhakimi@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

people have explained a dozen reasons why a. telegram is not better and b. nobody cares which is better anyway.