WhatsApp down. Would you miss it if it never worked again

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As above WhatsApp not working. Has it affected you yet?

I would miss it a lot, message DD at uni quite a lot on it and send photos etc. Also quite a few groups on there, family, friends etc. Very easy way to stay in touch.

Ah I'd sent a message to my husband this morning and wondered why it hadn't sent. Thought there was an issue with my phone! I'd definitely miss it. I'm on various WhatsApp groups for both children's school years and many sports groups and so handy to let us know of any changes to training, organising lifts or reminding me of things I've forgotten!!

I use it quite a lot to chat with friends/family so I’d miss it if it disappeared forever (although presumably something else would pop up and take its place). But being down for a bit isn’t that big a deal.

I use it for group messages alot so I'd miss it but I'd also have a lot more free time

Surely one of the greatest benefits of WhatsApp is that you can call internationally for free! For me it would be disastrous if it were to disappear.

I prefer to use telegram, but yes I would miss WhatsApp because a lot of the people I speak to use it, if everyone moved to telegram I'd be delighted and would never use WhatsApp again.

Thanks for the heads up OP, I hadn't realised it was down. I use it a lot and would miss it.

The cowardly OP seems to have fucked off but I'm sure few would disagree that whatsapp is more useful than it isn't.

My DP lives in Australia and WhatsApp is how we communicate through messages and calls, I'd certainly miss it if it never worked again. We could use Messenger but for us the call quality isn't as good

I'm glad I saw this thread - I thought it was just me who was struggling with WhatsApp today. How long's it been down for?

I would definitely miss it. I use it for free video/audio calling every day.

I use it loads but telegram has very similar functionality so I’d just switch to that.

Cowardly??

I live abroad, texting my family and friends back home would cost each time with text but wouldn’t with WhatsApp

I didn’t realise it was down but I did wonder as a few messages I’d sent were just hanging

It’s literally just pinged back into life

A relative is in hospital, no visiting due to covid and no mobile signal. WhatsApp is our means of communication!

I needed it for phone calls yesterday morning. There was terrible phone reception where I was.

If it goes away forever, I will surely miss it. My friends and family live abroad, and it is the only way I can interact with them without spending a fortune. I remember paying 20p for a single text message. It is extremely simple to share a photo or video.😫

Family photos, messages. Family all off to church this morning harvest festival. DIL WhatsApp grandson ill. Luckily noticed it hadn't sent so had to individual message all. So it's useful to us

I like WhatsApp, when sending a normal text it costs extra to put an emoji or a video or send a photo where as it doesn’t with WhatsApp,

Yes I like my group chats.

Ooh the thread police.

Forget about group chat , although most of it is gossip, but it's good fun.😋

I'd miss it because it would cost me a fortune to send all the gifs/ random pics I send my mum and the dc.
I guess we'd get used to opening the sms app instead though.

Oh and I can send group texts on my mid range Samsung. I didnt know that until just now because I hardly ever sms.

Me neither. I don't use anything owned by facebook and I have unlimited free texts.