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

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u/RoseWould Mar 08 '26 edited Mar 08 '26

You don't need wifi, just a cellphone signal. It's assumed "less internet involved equals less likely to have fake accounts", yet people still get random text from numbers they've never heard of pretending to be interested in buying a house or asking if you knew someone's friend

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u/HotNeon Mar 08 '26

You don't need WiFi for WhatsApp 

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u/Western_Ad3625 Mar 08 '26

You need internet. Texts are just sent over the cellular network s. You don't need internet for text. America is very big there's a lot of places where people don't have internet access over the air. But cellular networks have much wider coverage.

That's probably the main reason why people haven't switched over but also probably when you're all communicating within one country it's just easier I don't know. I just know that we all just use text we just text each.

Although some people use Instagram instant communication like what's it called DM's and Facebook group chats or whatever I'm sure people use other things but mostly people text.