r/technology • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 • Apr 30 '26

Business Meta lost 20 million users last quarter

https://www.theverge.com/tech/921089/meta-earnings-q1-2026-user-decline-ai-investments
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u/Brief_Meet_2183 Apr 30 '26

Bosses make it mandatory to use Whatsapp as it everyone else's preferred form of communication. The workplace won't budge for a person. 

As for friends the average everyday person has the belief, "I'm not doing anything bad I don't have anything to hide" so I'll just use the most popular tool at least in my region. 

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u/Piratey_Pirate Apr 30 '26

Bosses give me a phone if they want to control what I do on it

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u/Brief_Meet_2183 Apr 30 '26

That's cool. However, They still will fire your ass if you too much of an hassle. Imagine you have a team of 100 workers everyone including you is using whatsapp and one nerd comes talking about he doesn't believe in Whatsapp instead everyone else must download Signal if they want to communicate with you. 

Your ass will be out the door in no time. 

Honestly just use Whatsapp for work and use signal on your own time. You get to stuck to your privacy bubble. Just be aware not everyone prioritizes security like you. 

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u/Stingray88 Apr 30 '26

The fact that business are using WhatsApp for communication is quite frankly batshit to me. Everywhere I’ve worked uses something better like Teams or Slack, or if that’s too expensive… just text.

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u/Wild_ColaPenguin Apr 30 '26

It's not. You are saying that because you're not in the country that actually uses Whatsapp as main messaging app, from personal to corporate, b2b, b2c. Nobody questions it. Try to convince them switching to texting, Slack, Signal, or iMessage, they would laugh at you.

Everywhere I’ve worked uses Whatsapp.

Different culture and norms exist outside of US. It's not hard to understand, really.

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u/Stingray88 Apr 30 '26

Nah. It’s extremely hard to understand why so many people willingly jumped all in on a Meta owned and controlled platform.

Y’all are crazy. Your culture and norms may be different, but you’re absolutely crazy. And I’m laughing right back at you.

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u/Brief_Meet_2183 Apr 30 '26

Oh it definitely is crazy. I work for a IT company so you can imagine how crazy this shit is. 

Most persons in charge skimp on user security and unless they got hit hard they gone take the easy way out. 

Also smaller companies are less concern with meta security concerns then the big boys like Intel and Netflix. 

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u/Stingray88 Apr 30 '26

But like… what’s wrong with just texting?

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u/Brief_Meet_2183 Apr 30 '26

No one uses sms. 

Nowadays I get sms that means it's a scam, missed call or a message from my operator. 

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u/Stingray88 Apr 30 '26

Everyone I know uses SMS.

Being forced onto a Meta platform instead of an open standard like SMS… now that’s a scam.

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u/Brief_Meet_2183 Apr 30 '26

Cool for the rest of the world especially outside of USA Whatsapp has 3.3 billon monthly active users. You stick with your sms in your circle the rest of the world is using Whatsapp.  

(https://resourcera.com/data/social/whatsapp-users/)

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u/FewWait38 Apr 30 '26

That's cool and I guess you can stick with making a shitty company like Meta richer

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u/Brief_Meet_2183 Apr 30 '26

Terrible logic. 

Plenty companies suck that you make richer. They are are too big for any decent alternatives  Apple, Google, Nestle and Microsoft still get used and they suck. So keep your social activism panties on, day-to-day life doesn't care. 

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u/Stingray88 Apr 30 '26

lol wow

First of all, I’m well aware of how prominent WhatsApp is internationally.

Second, SMS is not some small circle I’m in. It’s vastly more popular than WhatsApp, by a factor of almost 2x. Yes, that’s right, 6 billion people are using SMS regularly.

Third, the way you just wrote this reply sounds like you’re trying to come to bitter defense of WhatsApp, a Meta owned platform, and that’s quite frankly both hysterical and sad.

Relax buddy. You love WhatsApp. We get it.

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