Regional Messaging App Preferences
Discussions highlight WhatsApp's dominance as the primary messaging app in Europe, Asia, Latin America, and other regions outside the US, contrasting it with iMessage and SMS usage primarily in the US.
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Whatsapp is kinda ubiquitous in some EMEA countries where stuff like iMessage is virtually unused
iMessage is pretty rare. Europe is on WhatsApp
WhatsApp is a non-US thing. In Europe, it has de facto replaced SMS
I think this is country specific. Whatsapp is used heavily in Europe and parts of Asia.If I didn't have friends in other countries I'd just be using Facebook Messenger and iMessage as well. In the US it's predominantly Facebook Messenger.
That must be a US-only thing. In the rest of the world everyone uses WhatsApp/Telegram/Viber/etc (WeChat in China) and iMessage is not popular at all.
WhatsApp is massive in Europe, I'm currently in Spain and nobody uses anything else.
Same here. Most iPhone users around me use Whatsapp. I don't live in the US.
Honestly it's weird how this is a thing in the US. In what I believe is most of the world, people just use WhatsApp, no sms, no iMessage.Same is true for any demography as well. Maybe add some Instagram for the younger groups.
There are many examples all over the world. Plenty of countries have people that have attachments to apps like whatsapp, telegram, etc.All of my friends in brazil, for instance, are entirely attached to whatsapp.I agree with the other reply. Where do you live? I'm surprised that you haven't encountered any. Every city in the US that I visited and every city that I visited internationally has people that attach themselves to one of either whatsapp, telegram, imessage, etc.(I&#x
Is that a US thing though? Most of my contacts use WhatsApp.