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WhatsApp is the worst app on your Windows 11 PC right now, eating 1.2GB of RAM doing nothing (www.windowslatest.com)
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[–] Newuser@lemmy.world 10 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Well most people dont have any other option since 100% of your friends and families are exclusively on WhatsApp , whatsapp had early mover advantage it was free and easy to use so now everyone just uses it

[–] tackleberry@thelemmy.club 1 points 2 hours ago

so did my-space

[–] Eheran@lemmy.world 4 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

If your friends can not be arsed to install an app on their phone for you, I got some bad news.

[–] Newuser@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

Actually it's not just friends ( we did shifted to telegram a while back ) most people where I am from use WhatsApp grand parents to grand parents to even some college official group ( yeah Ik )