Here in Germany I suspect it would be mostly met with shrugs and "good riddance". Sure there would be some teenage tears, but that's to be expected.
>Not to mention WhatsApp is used by a lot of mid-sized companies as a method of rapid communication
They'll move to something else within a day, while regular people will need two.
All this stuff is easy and fast to replace - and it will be replaced almost literally over night. It has happened to messaging services and social networks in the past, and it will again. MSN and ICQ disappeared incredibly fast, as did social networks like schülerVZ/studiVZ/meinVZ in Germany.
Yep... the tragedy would be if only you got banned from facebook/google... but when all your friends get banned, they/we all move together to a new platform (and let's be fair, most of us europeans have most of our friends nearby, within the EU, and the ones outside have a lot of EU friends too).
So yeah... a few weeks of panic, and everyone would be using "something else".
Here in Germany I suspect it would be mostly met with shrugs and "good riddance". Sure there would be some teenage tears, but that's to be expected.
>Not to mention WhatsApp is used by a lot of mid-sized companies as a method of rapid communication
They'll move to something else within a day, while regular people will need two.
All this stuff is easy and fast to replace - and it will be replaced almost literally over night. It has happened to messaging services and social networks in the past, and it will again. MSN and ICQ disappeared incredibly fast, as did social networks like schülerVZ/studiVZ/meinVZ in Germany.