In the digital era, the presence of instant messaging services, such as WhatsApp, has helped human activities, including Indonesians. In fact, Indonesians have been ordained as the world's longest using WhatsApp.
This is known through We Are Social's latest report in January 2023. The report also revealed the average use of WhatsApp per hour in a month.
For the record, the data used by Data.Ai cited in the We Are Social report are WhatsApp users using Android devices, not valid for iOS users.
It was revealed that the average Indonesian can spend 29.1 hours a month using WhatsApp. This is a record high compared to any country in the world.
Behind him is Brazil, which spends up to 28.2 hours per month on WhatsApp, followed by Argentina with 27.2 hours, Mexico with 19.5 and India with 17.6 hours.
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The We Are Social report reveals the time spent by users per hour in a month around the world, and users in Indonesia are the most beta 'hanging out' on the instant messaging service. Photo: We Are Social
This research also found that WhatsApp is the most favorite social media platform used by people around the world. There were 15.8% of active users aged 16 to 64 who said they liked Meta's instant messaging service.
Even so, WhatsApp still loses in terms of the most time spent by social media users, where YouTube is at the top with an average of 23 hours 9 minutes, then there is Facebook 19 hours 43 minutes, WhatsApp with 17 hours 20 minutes, and Instagram. 12 hours.
When talking about the highest number of users, We Are Social says WhatsApp now has two billion monthly active users. When viewed from gender, the most male users reached 54.2% and 45.8% female.
When viewed from the lens of a digital platform, WhatsApp is in the 15 most used services worldwide beating the class Wechat, TikTok, Facebook Messenger, Telegram, Snapchat, Twitter.
And, the number of WhatsApp users is still far behind that of its sibling, Facebook, which has 2.958 billion users, which is the most widely used. Then WhatsApp also lost to YouTube with 2.514 billion users, but it is on par with Instagram which has two billion users as well.