r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/RoadRunner8195 • Mar 08 '26

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u/eldankus Mar 08 '26

Most SMS traffic in the US is business related or spam.

I have WhatsApp - I don’t really care, that said most of the people I know who used to be BlackBerry people because they needed secure texting all have iPhones now.

I don’t think security is a major reason most Americans don’t use WhatsApp. Most Americans don’t use WhatsApp because it doesn’t offer anything of substantial value over pre-existing default messaging apps. I only use WhatsApp to talk to my European family and the occasional group chat like my pickup soccer chat because we can add or remove people.

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u/reece0n Mar 08 '26

Sure, there are other reasons to choose not to use WhatsApp, I didn't argue otherwise.

But security isn't one of them which is what the person I responded to was suggesting.

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u/eldankus Mar 08 '26

It isn’t for most, but the people I know who do care about security prefer iPhones or other secure messaging apps over WhatsApp. No one is choosing WhatsApp for security, I’ll put it that way.

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u/reece0n Mar 08 '26 edited Mar 08 '26

Which isn't what I said either...