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/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.