… is it possible to do any kind of business and/or have regular conversations without having to use whatsapp as a main way of communication?
If you’d like you can say in what country you’re living.
… is it possible to do any kind of business and/or have regular conversations without having to use whatsapp as a main way of communication?
If you’d like you can say in what country you’re living.
USA here. No we don’t use WhatsApp at all. I communicate with all friends and family on Telegram or SMS. For work we use Slack. I refuse to have any Facebook anything installed on my phone (I don’t use social media anyway…except for Lemmy now I guess if that counts haha)
I’m a proponent of breaking social media into two categories. There should be “personal media” or something where you use your real name and information, and some other name for social media that you use an alias. The fact Reddit/Lemmy are in the same category as Facebook seems dumb. We need a better way to describe it. Depending on how you define it, news sites with comment sections could be called social media if you wanted to, but it’s clearly something different than Facebook.
I appreciate this distinction. I have retreated from all social media according to this definition. I run a Lemmy instance not as a social medium but as a personal medium aince I intentionally have the lemmy ‘branded’ as a personal blog.
I don’t need an anonymous online persona, I mean, what’s the benefit of having a stranger I will never meet like a photo? Of course I value privacy but I’m also realistic about how anonymous we aren’t in the social media sphere.
I’m here as an anonymous user on the solarpunk instance really just to add to the conversation and help lemmy grow. Once I get my traction on the personal instance and the fediverse is growing and healthy, I plan to let this user go fallow.