Many countries outside the US rely on WhatsApp for communication. I imagine even a few hours of non-communication wouldn’t be good for the economy or emergency services.
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#3The sad thought crossed my mind: people using Whatsapp to have last calls with family members dying of e.g. COVID, trying terribly to get onto telegram or something but having no luck getting through since everything was degraded.
Kinda ruined the few hours of fun for me.
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#4All of us because thats all anyone talked about today
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#5If your life gets negatively affected by whatsapp being unavailable, order a new life instead.
At least install Signal, Telegram et al and wean everyone else out of fb-wa.
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#6The sad thought crossed my mind: people using Whatsapp to have last calls with family members dying of e.g. COVID, trying terribly to get onto telegram or something but having no luck getting through since everything was degraded. Kinda ruined the few hours of fun for me.
I seriously doubt those people couldn't just call normally instead
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#7It would be pretty irresponsible for emergency services to be dependent on WhatsApp or anything of its ilk.
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#8Few weeks ago I had to reach the Westjet Customer support team for some help with my itinerary, after waiting on hold for over three hours and without any call back the only way I was able to reach an agent was via WhatsApp as they seem to have a higher response time over there. Three days later I received a call from an agent mentioning that he is returning a call... If it was not for Whatsapp I would have missed my flight as they wouldn't be able to make those changes.
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#9The sad thought crossed my mind: people using Whatsapp to have last calls with family members dying of e.g. COVID, trying terribly to get onto telegram or something but having no luck getting through since everything was degraded. Kinda ruined the few hours of fun for me.
People dying of COVID are usually heavily sedated with a tube down their tracheae.
They don’t have last words, they either get better or die.
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