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"just whatsapped me"
Lol, fuck off, he sent you a message, not all apps and websites need to become a fucking verb
Odd hill to die on but I'm kinda for it.
Yeah I'm gonna pipe my opinion here too. If I said "so and so signaled me" that would be very weird in any context. Facebook Messengered me? iMessaged me? Smsed me? Snapchatted me? I mean fuck twitter people said "dmed" me not twittered me
If you told someone in Europe you were going to txt them they would think you were weird
"What you don't have whatsapp? It's literally free"
Europeans don't text, they use messenger apps, mostly WhatsApp
It really depends on the country. SMS is still commonly used in France for instance.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1005178/share-population-using-whatsapp-europe/
I wonder if France had cheaper SMS rates in the early 2000s because that was the big driver of WhatsApp. I have to admit though in my experience I don't think I know of any situation where someone from France has ever used anything other than WhatsApp. I would hate it if they texted me because then it wouldn't auto translate.
Standard mobile plans in France have included unlimited SMS since the mid 2000s I'd say. People still use it, but WhatsApp/Messenger are pretty popular too.
French people actually use MMS, which I never thought anyone would.
True but only if you really specify "SMS", because if you just say "I'll text you" they'll just assume that means WhatsApp/messenger.
In my country SMS is free
That's texting and anyone who says it isn't is a fucking idiot, unless they're only communicating via emoji or some wild shit
Why would that be a hill to die on? It was just a response. No one was insisting on anything.
nah I like to flex that one of my friends Signaled me
War plans?
maybe
at least that's an actual English verb
Your mom just Bumbled me.
Jokes on you, you grandma just Onlyfansed me
Doesn't signalling someone sound like your "saying you available either romantically or sexually" or is that just the weird way my brain works
I think it's such a general word that your association says something about what subjects are on the top of your mind.
My association was hand gestures, or more comically, flag signals :D
Standing in the street outside your crushes house, flag in each hand, trying desperately to remember the proper way to signal "will you go out with me" in semaphore.
I think that's just you.
Or maybe it's the signal to like, commence the flashmob.
What a weird thing to get angry at.
I think using brands as verbs might be very normalised in the US but it's less common elsewhere.
It's not offensive but it's... jarring or noticeable.
Here no one would say whatsapped or telegramed or signalled. It's just messaged.
Plus the additional information can be useful. If someone says "I'll whatsapp you the details" you might respond with: "No I don't have internet connection, just SMS me instead" or "I don't use whatsapp, how about signal". At the very least you know where to look for the message
Are they angry?
Easy to say when you have balls of steel
It's like those guys that name brand EVERYTHING.
"Can you get my iPhone 17 extreme from my Hermes leather jacket, it's in the backseat of my Audi R8."
....fucking cringe.
VELCRO EXCEPTION!
"Is that xerox a Canon?"
Fred Grindred me last night.
Whatsapp is the only real form of instant communication in my country (Jamaica), because it still costs money to send texts and a lot of other messaging services aren't even available/supported in the region.
No way in hell do I believe that Signal won't work on Jamaica.
Tons of things work.
When people say things like that, they don't understand technology and just say that the popular thing is the "only" way.
In my case, good luck convincing the average Jamaican to switch to Signal, same problem everywhere! Just trying to give context to the verb "whatsapp".
I don't think they actually said that I think they were just saying that WhatsApp is the primary method of communication in Jamaica
Signal did not replace expensive texting and offer free wireless communication for the first time EVER in basically every developing country. Get off your high horse.
It might not have been a message, it might have been a WhatsApp video call. In which case 'whatsapped me' is a little shorter than 'just video called me' or 'just WhatsApp video called me'.
The app is over a decade in popular use, people will integrate it into language.
Whatapp is the preferred messaging app for most of europe because it subverts the complicated and sometimes expensive telephone networks
It's the same as saying you txted someone
All my international coworkers when I travel ask me to use WhatsApp. It saves them money and makes it easy to connect to others. Anyone in this thread shitting on it has either never traveled internationally or is just an asshole.
Or uses signal, the better version
I am the asshole.
I refuse to install that goddamn app.
When I'm in Europe and people want to catch up, I'm the one forcing them to open their email. Or to actually dial the phone.
No one is shitting on the app, I'm shitting on the language used, go read what I wrote again.
Or if you prefer
No one is Totoing on the app, I'm American Standarding on the language used, go read what I Gboarded again.
Yep, I agree it's pretty annoying. What's ironic though is that in the spirit of shortening everything (like many Americans seem to do), "texted" would've been shorter (and in this instance there's nothing particular about which app they used to do that).
It might be to highlight that he used WhatsApp, which is popular in Europe but not America.