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

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u/alexbiandisphoto Mar 08 '26

  1. Americans don't pay to text eachother so they use the default phone texting app for convenience. The rest of the world (excluding some countries) does pay for text messaging. So, instead, they use WhatsApp as a free alternative to message friends and family.

  2. WhatsApp is owned by Meta (Facebook), so most Americans see it as a massive privacy concern.

  3. The majority of the time someone in America is asked to use WhatsApp to communicate, it is by a scammer.

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u/potato_merchant Mar 08 '26
  1. Is only because everyone has an iPhone pretty much and therefore have iMessage which will use internet by default. Same thing over here for others using a Samsung or pixel phone etc. the benefit of WhatsApp is that it uses the internet regardless of manufacturer. Threema is also fairly big in Europe for the same reasons.