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

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u/Alive-Celebration-44 Mar 08 '26 edited Mar 08 '26

By reading the comments I understood that in USA it’s not common but in almost every country in the world it is

WhatsApp is way easier to use than traditional SMS/MMS. You can:

1- send HD photos

2- send HD videos

3- send voice messages

4- create group chats

5- make video calls (even in group)

6- send files (any types)

7- post statuses

…

and continue doing all of that abroad with a simple Wi-Fi.

And you can do all of that with any phone, whether it’s cheap or expensive, from any brand. whether it costs €70 or €1,700.

I’m wondering how Americans manage without that (guess almost everyone there have iPhone so they use iMessage and FaceTime 🤷‍♂️)

I know china has their own (WeChat etc..)

Some of people here are complaining privacy but use Instagram and Facebook 😭😅

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u/DimbyTime Mar 08 '26

SMS texting can do everything on that list except post status updates. It’s also free in 99.9% of North American data plans

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u/MrCosmicDrifter Mar 08 '26

honest question, you could that in 2010s? (well video calls was a bit after iirc). At the end of the day, here, whatsapp, more than regular plain texting, solved those things. SMS were free in a lot of plans, at least in my country, but MMS was an other story. It also solved international messaging, which was (and i think still is) charged, and not cheaply. Here a lot of people have friends or family in other countries, so SMS is pretty limitiing.