Meta pushed a WhatsApp update that replaces the soccer ball ⚽ with the FIFA corruption cup soccer ball by Adidas

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    24 days ago

    Because most of the world is already on WhatsApp, and changing to Signal would isolate you from most people and businesses.

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      23 days ago

      changing to Signal would isolate you from most people and businesses.

      Sounds great - if I wasn’t already using Signal, that just might persuade me 😁

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      23 days ago

      The only people that believe I’m worth contacting have already switched to Signal and the ones that refused to switch lost contact with me. Their loss I guess.

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      23 days ago

      Must be more popular in your country, in Canada I don’t know a single person on whatsapp

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        23 days ago

        It’s very big in western Europe. Here in the Netherlands everybody is on WhatsApp pretty much since it’s creation

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            20 days ago

            never heard anyone use whatsapp in sweden, everyone is expected to use something that supports sms as a fallback. Usually facebook messenger or whatever the iphone thing is called.

            Far as i know the only popular truly separate platform would be something like snapchat or kik or whatever, which is used by teenagers.

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        23 days ago

        Yeah they’re all on Facebook Messenger which sucks. I’ve managed to switch a few in my surroundings to Signal but I still need to keep Messenger for holdouts.

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          23 days ago

          Thankfully I have managed to get everyone to switch from Messenger to Signal, atleast for talking to me haha. Two other family members being privacy oriented too really helped getting the rest of the family moved over.