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I meant countries like India, Brazil etc. They heavily use WhatsApp mostly because people are illiterate and poor. People use WhatsApp in Europe but not as much when compared to India.
In 2022, 75% of UK Internet users and 80% of Hong Kong internet users used WhatsApp (just do a search for "WhatsApp usage in Hong kong/uk"). Would you call these global financial hubs poor and illiterate countries?
I hate Facebook as much as the average lemmy user (lemming?), but let's not pretend that everyone makes decisions based on the company's reputation.
I'm in the UK and have it but literally none of my contacts use it except the local dog daycare that use it to send pictures. So according to stats I 'use' it but not really
Facebook messenger is fairly big (almost everyone is on it mainly because they all have Facebook accounts) and I know a lot on Signal (they all moved from Telegram because Russia, which I thought was an overreaction but no choice but to follow).
I'm in the uk and it's not uncommon to never end up texting people on WhatsApp but in my experience almost everyone I've met has it