<story><title>How to permanently delete your Facebook account</title><url>https://www.facebook.com/help/224562897555674</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zionic</author><text>This is so strange, no one in my social circle uses WhatsApp or has ever asked me to use it to talk to them. It’s all iMessage, Snapchat, and a growing group of people on Signal.</text></item><item><author>dotancohen</author><text>I could have written this comment word for word.&lt;p&gt;People get _offended_ when you tell them that you don&amp;#x27;t have Whatsapp. But I let them hold that hot coal themselves.</text></item><item><author>shadowfaxRodeo</author><text>I got rid of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp about 4 years ago. Facebook and Instagram was easy, but people who have WhatsApp really think you’re weird for not having it.&lt;p&gt;Deleting WhatsApp, while annoying for me personally, has resulted in many people I know joining Signal or Telegram — the network effect can be broken by being belligerent.&lt;p&gt;If you don’t want to have a conversation about why you deleted WhatsApp, simply say it’s a moral issue, nobody wants to know.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hnlmorg</author><text>Messaging clients tend to be regional. WhatsApp is massive in Europe. From what I gather WeChat is dominant in mainland China but Hong Kong still used WhatsApp (though I think they might be coming round to Signal?) and the US, who have a higher ratio of Apple users vs the rest of the world, tend to use iMessage a lot more.</text></comment>
<story><title>How to permanently delete your Facebook account</title><url>https://www.facebook.com/help/224562897555674</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zionic</author><text>This is so strange, no one in my social circle uses WhatsApp or has ever asked me to use it to talk to them. It’s all iMessage, Snapchat, and a growing group of people on Signal.</text></item><item><author>dotancohen</author><text>I could have written this comment word for word.&lt;p&gt;People get _offended_ when you tell them that you don&amp;#x27;t have Whatsapp. But I let them hold that hot coal themselves.</text></item><item><author>shadowfaxRodeo</author><text>I got rid of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp about 4 years ago. Facebook and Instagram was easy, but people who have WhatsApp really think you’re weird for not having it.&lt;p&gt;Deleting WhatsApp, while annoying for me personally, has resulted in many people I know joining Signal or Telegram — the network effect can be broken by being belligerent.&lt;p&gt;If you don’t want to have a conversation about why you deleted WhatsApp, simply say it’s a moral issue, nobody wants to know.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Flashtoo</author><text>I assume you&amp;#x27;re in the US. In most of Europe Whatsapp is the main communication platform. SMS is dead and Android is more popular than iOS, so no iMessage either.</text></comment>