My personal observation:
with whatsapp you can send very large video clips that you cant send over a text, some of these clips are even too large for e-mail over the phone. So what happens is, in five minutes you get tens of these clips. When we had whatsapp, we would spend every free minute watching these entertaining clips that were getting passed around. Believe me, they were intersting, from magic tricks, to goof tricks etc.
We couldnt stop watching, it was like having a TV turned on all day.
We decided to get rid of whatsapp. It was so liberating.
we were free.
texting is quick.
whatapp is addictive and time consuming.