• Retronautickz@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    Whatsapp is so big here that it’s not just that everyone uses it, you are practically require, forced, to use Whatsapp.

    I hate whatsapp, but they require it at the university if I want to be informed. Doctor appointments are also. via whatsapp.

    • MudMan@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      Hah. During the pandemic the government here would reach out to you for vaccine appointments over Facebook and WhatsApp. I personally know at least a couple of people who dabbled in antivax stuff and wouldn’t pick up the phone but still got their shots after the government reached out that way.

      Not that Meta has anything to do with that, but it was funny to me to see the government embrace the vectors of misinformation to shame people into not being idiots.