The United States lags far behind, representing a small percentage of children, with just 5.2% active on WhatsApp. ![]() While WhatsApp is still the number one communication app for children in the UK and France, the number of active profiles is lower, at 36.81% and 29.14% respectively. The insights collected show that WhatsApp is the communication app of choice for young people in most of the countries analyzed – in Spain, WhatsApp sits comfortably in the number one position, with 52.74% of 10-18 year olds active on the app. According to Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, a total of 100 billion messages a day are sent using the app.ĭue to WhatsApp’s enormous popularity, Qustodio, leader in online safety and digital wellbeing for families, has produced a report looking into how young people aged 10-18 used the app in 2021, focusing on WhatsApp use in Spain, The United Kingdom, The United States, and France. ![]() ![]() Mid-2021, WhatsApp became the most popular communication app worldwide, with insights from Statista showing 2 billion active monthly users on the app. Just two years later, WhatsApp arrived on the market: the free messaging service that would completely revolutionize how texts were sent and received. Texting as a popular form of communication soon replaced phone calls, and in 2007, for the very first time in the USA – where more text messages are sent than anywhere else in the world – Americans sent and received more texts per month than they did phone calls. Textspeak, now almost as ancient as hieroglyphics for Gen Z and Alpha, featuring short forms of words and even whole phrases, such as “gr8”, “2nite”, “CUL8R”, and “TYSM”, became commonplace in attempts to hold a meaningful conversation within those precious 160 characters. ![]() These limits heavily defined daily communication, encouraging mobile users across the globe to brush up on their editing skills, and get creative with language. In what feels like a lifetime ago in the world of technology, a simple message sent to friends or family was limited to 160 characters, and cost roughly 11 cents.
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