Ok, I feel old. The only reason facebook has any relevance to me is the market place. What’s the best alternative?
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That's just it, Facebook is kinda the default option, and almost everyone has an account there. It's why so many clubs arrange everything through a Facebook page.
My family has a signal group. I started it two years ago.
Almost no one pays any attention to it, unless they accidentally open the app once a month, but they're all still there and can be spoken to.
I put a PSA out a month ago that I'll no longer respond on Facebook Messenger or SMS after the turn of the year. Tough shit. There was some groaning but, if there's no other way, either use Signal or invest in a Pigeon coop and get training.
There was some groaning but, if there’s no other way, either use Signal or invest in a Pigeon coop and get training.
Any particular reason you are abandoning SMS? Any particular reason for the strict rule?
RCS ain't universal. I only have it with some iPhone users and the rare Pixel.
If it's what's for dinner, I don't care. Musk can know I had some hamburger steak.
If it's the code to your tablet, mom, ask on Signal.
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This is news? The article’s own graph puts this about 6 years ago
WhatsApp? The instant messenger boomers use on their phones?
Damn, who saw that coming.
Spotted the iMessage user who routinly cries about dot colour
Weird that this is your association as using it would require an iPhone which most youth don't have. My thought was Telegram, which is omnipresent at least around me, with Whatsapp often being kept just for the parents or older relatives.
telegram is one of the worst, privacy wise.
I know, and it's terrible that it's so unavoidable. I managed to avoid Whatsapp, but without Telegram managing university life would be incredibly hard.
"an iPhone which most youth dont have"
i see you dont live in north america
telegram is for pedos and this one guy i know uses it and i question his motives
No, it's used by just about everyone. Generally the younger the person and the bigger their city, the more likely they are to gravitate towards Telegram rather than Whatsapp.
I know alot of people in my city and its one of the biggest in north america and they have never heard of it.
In most of Europe WhatsApp is synonymous with text messaging.
Also in South Asia and the Middle East.
Yeah, the other instant messenger owned by Facebook
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well Facebook still owns them and will own them when they all switch to instagram reels like America wants them to do
Sadly Elon Musk remains a threat to us all.
Isn't whatsapp for old people? Drag uses Discord instead. It's not great, but at least it doesn't hack your phone.
As much as I dislike Whatsapp and love Discord. Private messages in Whatsapp are encrypted while Discord messages are entirely collected