Poll of the Day > Attention: Immigrants

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Why do you love WhatsApp so much? We are texting fine why must you make me use it when you want to send me pics or other information? Just text me a pic of the documents I requested.

idk about immigrants but I personally am rather phone illiterate and while I can text fine, multimedia sharing only seems to work in whatsapp for me (well, and facebook messenger, but don't use that)

Why is tc singling out immigrants?

what a weird topic..

because its free.

HornedLion posted...

Why do you love WhatsApp so much?

i'm assuming you're talking about mexican, indian, or brazillian immigrants, and it's because it's ubiquitous in their home countries and among their families here

i think china's version of this is WeChat

well I'm an immigrant, US -> UK and basically much of the rest of the world uses WhatsApp so that's why lol. everyone here uses it.

got my US friends and family on it too. no international calling or texting fees with that.

so lots of people across the world use it, it's a good app, and it's free.

was funny joining and seeing which US friends were already on WhatsApp. was a bunch of people who have international connections.

So unlimited texting isnt really A thing in other countries?

HornedLion posted...

So unlimited texting isnt really A thing in other countries?

In some cases, but more saliently than that, unlimited *international* texting is very rarely a thing even for American phone plans, which means they need something like WhatsApp to keep in touch with family or friends in other countries. That's not really a thing for many native Americans or Canadians because it's significantly harder for us to travel to other countries than it is for just about anyone else (and at least in Canada, I know phone plans that include texts/calls to the US aren't uncommon, though it comes at a price), but for the many, many countries in the world where people can get to a new country with a 2-hour train ride, it's a lot more common for people to need to keep in touch across international borders. Wanting to use it for domestic communications as well is just a matter of trying to keep all of their communications in one place.

adjl posted...

That's not really a thing for many native Americans or Canadians because it's significantly harder for us to travel to other countries than it is for just about anyone else (and at least in Canada, I know phone plans that include texts/calls to the US aren't uncommon, though it comes at a price), but for the many, many countries in the world where people can get to a new country with a 2-hour train ride, it's a lot more common for people to need to keep in touch across international borders.

I get that you left "native" in lowercase and are correct to do so but I still had to repeat this 3 times before I didn't read "Native Americans."

i will never use whatsapp because the name is so stupid

ListerineStrips posted...

I get that you left "native" in lowercase and are correct to do so but I still had to repeat this 3 times before I didn't read "Native Americans."

That wasn't even deliberate, nor did I consider that interpretation. I probably should have worded that better, but alas, is too late.