Texting and communicating in Spain is different than in the United States. At home we text with SMS or iMessage straight to a phone number from the texting program in our phones. In Spain, a majority of the younger generation who have smart phones use an app called whatsapp. I did not understand when someone said 'whatsapp' and thought it was whatsup! A lot of people made jokes, but I still wasn't understanding until I saw the name of the app. In order to text someone you both need to have this app. It is an app available on all phones, except apparently windows, but most people here have androids which is also different from the US where we typically have iPhones.
My host mom does actually text me from her phone but she has a sliding phone with now QWERTY keyboard, she has to click until she gets to the letter she wants. So I text her from my Spain phone but everyone else I 'Whatsapp' them.
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