@Jenny Can you please separate my original post from all the responses about What’sApp? My question has gotten lost in that. Thanks.
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I use WhatsApp when communicating with people in other countries.
but you wouldn’t call or text. People don’t do that any more. You just use Whatsapp or Facetime etc for video calls
Same point. People don’t text or call. You don’t in business, or when travelling. You call people, they won’t pick up. I never do. You only get texts that are purely for information, eg dentist appointment reminders. I can only communicate with my hairdresser by Instagram. Restaurant bookings are made on line, not on the phone. I work freelance, and did a one-day job the other day. Contact was by email, then by Zoom. How things are in the US is not how they are elsewhere. In almost all of Europe (which is not one country) the above is how things are. Important to know, if you are travelling.
Actually, there are variations in how people communicate. But if you’re saying that there’s easy communications across countries, that’s often not the case, which is partly why WhatsApp and its competitors exist — to make communications smoother. There’s no one-size-fits-all.
Personally, I communicate across about a dozen platforms regularly, for personal and professional use. I work with freelancers sometimes, too. They work how we determine, not how they do, in such cases. Like many companies don’t use WhatsApp, because it lacks enterprise-level security, as determined by each business. And I’ve worked at companies that have folks on multiple continents.
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