A look at why WhatsApp has become the de facto social network for older users in India, where the app has more than 200M users (Pranav Dixit/BuzzFeed)

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A look at why WhatsApp has become the de facto social network for older users in India, where the app has more than 200M users  —  My mother became addicted to WhatsApp when her mother passed away in the winter of 2013.  She used it, she said, to “fill up a vacuum,” numbing her grief …