# WhatsApp

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Also called: Whats App, WhatsApp group, Whatsapp message

A messaging app for text, voice notes, calls and group chats, used widely around the world. [Meta](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/meta) owns it.

**For example:** A [founder](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/founder) keeps a WhatsApp group with early customers abroad and sends voice notes asking for feedback.

Official site: <https://www.whatsapp.com>

## Connects to (5)

- [Meta](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/meta): The company behind Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp.
- [Signal](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/signal): A messaging app for texts, calls and groups that encrypts messages from end to end.
- [Social media](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/social-media): Sites and apps where people share posts, photos and videos and follow each other, such as LinkedIn, YouTube and Facebook.
- [Encryption](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/encryption): Scrambling data with a key so only someone with the right key can read it.
- [Meta AI](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/meta-ai): Meta's AI assistant, available in its own app and inside Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger.

Map view: https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/whatsapp