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    I see. I did assume you were from a place that would have had to adjusted to that due to recent infrastructure.

    The US has had telephones since 1800. The culture is not as new.

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      The dominance of WhatsApp in some countries is not because telephones are new to them. I hope this was a joke and not a real American view of how other countries are.

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        I hope you are joking to act like the Europe is American and talking so authoritatively with just personal experience and frankly you seem very naive. American have to have local numbers spoofed often in order to be scammed by these other countries.

        What are the WhatsApp scam rates?

        Phone numbers were required for business for the longest to incorporate, so it was a way of showing legitimacy. Even now, a physical location gives customers comfort.

        Jesus Christ you just have to be right but you have lived such a small life.

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          I have no idea what the last handful of posts on this thread are even about, so I’m just gonna rest my case here. I feel I’ve made my point clearly enough.

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            Yes, you explained your personal and local experience and it works for you. It’s hilarious that a stable phone network with a private/public partnership to maintain access in one country is not unerstood by those in countries who have only recently set up any kind of “stable” way of contacting their people.

            We used postal for all federal contact for decades. It’s really narrow understanding of people.

            But yeah that’s the internet for you.

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              The Internet, in my opinion, is the push and pull between the weird fascination to find out when you think people outside the US started using telephones and the knowledge that digging further will not lead to anything useful or constructive.

              And yet I’m writing this. Now, THAT is the internet for you.