WhatsApp: Why Americans Don't Use It | The Deets

WhatsApp is the single most popular messaging app in the world. An estimated 1.5 billion people per month use it worldwide - 400 million a month in India alone. In the U.S. however, if you stopped someone on the street and asked them if they use WhatsApp… you’d get a lot of puzzled faces. Why is one of the world’s most popular apps practically unknown in this country? Here’s a breakdown of WhatsApp and why Americans don’t use it.

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[lingth]

Americans still use feet, inches, pounds and ounces also.

[daltonfilho]

Asking "Who uses Whatsapp?" Is like asking "who uses the metric system?"

[sohamchowdhury]

In my country
India
Literally everyone I know uses WhatsApp
Including my 73 year old Grandmother

[davebalmada]

Sometimes I even forget there's SMS or calls when I need someone to answer an urgent message. Not answering a WhatsApp message after one or two days might mean you're either dead or your phone is broken 😅

[homyce]

One of the things that shocked me the most when I moved to Canada is how people still use SMS over whatsapp. SMS have died where I came from a decade ago.

[alexvonora]

Whats hilarious to me is that Americans think that the rest of the world are the weirdos. LOL

[bynahelemaal]

Everybody in the netherlands also uses whatsapp instead of sms

[ak]

Why people still using SMS?
Answer: To get the verification code!

[augustoliver]

Sounds like Americans are isolated from the world...

[MezzoMixUniversal]

Thats quiet weird as a german. Here, you dont aks: "Hey, are you using whatsapp?" You just give somebody your nr and its clear how to communicate

[tumblergal]

80% of the comments: making fun of America
10% of comments: Americans defending themselves
10% of the comments: lazy research

[athrvakhrbde]

*Fun Fact:* People with the status, "Hey there! I'm using WhatsApp" on WhatsApp are busier that the people with status, "Busy"

[Randomguyinthestreet]

The metric system
Americans - I've Never seen this thing in my life before

[jeanmenieur]

I came to live in the USA like 6 months ago and I was amazed by how much SMS and physical mail is still used. It makes me feel archaic😒.

[caterina]

I mean I’m European and here EVERYONE uses WhatsApp and I was weirded out that Americans didn’t even know it existed LMAO.
Also I have friends in Latin America and they use it too.

[JoseMartinez-xfio]

The bottom line is that, here in the US, we all have unlimited talk, text, and data

[aniketb]

This guy is like a face blend of charlie puth & chris evans 😄

[schajendon]

In Germany even your 90 year old grandma has WhatsApp

[gerRule]

Americans don’t use WhatsApp? I don’t think I’ve ever met a person that doesn’t use it

[irvinthecraftvin]

It's weird when Americans say we're the weird one when their the only ones who are left out 🤦