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  • @KuroiKazeEnglish
    7•6 months ago

    Even in USA nobody ever SMS me. Messenger and insta are primary with WhatsApp and signal sometimes being relevant and wechat for the Chinese community.

    • @[email protected]English
      2•6 months ago

      Crazy, most people use SMS with Messenger as the go to for big groups for me (in USA). No one I know uses WhatsApp

      • @KuroiKazeEnglish
        6•6 months ago

        Seems weird to me to use an unencrypted ancient format

        • @[email protected]English
          3•6 months ago

          I’m just giving anecdotal evidence, just like you gave 🤷‍♂️ I’m not promoting one way of communicating vs another.

        • @[email protected]English
          1•6 months ago

          Unencrypted is not the thing that bothers me - after all, Telegram is so popular, so not like most people even care. What bothers me is that you still need to pay for each one! You have to edit the texts to fit into a tiny arbitrary character restriction or else you’s be charged for a second message! Why is data do relatively cheap, but those messages are still overpriced?

          • @[email protected]English
            3•6 months ago

            Mobile plans as standard here (in the UK) offer SMS for free, can’t remember when they used to routinely charge tbh. But I think I only text my dad as he’s very old school, everyone else is Signal/WhatsApp/Telegram

          • @KuroiKazeEnglish
            2•6 months ago

            Huh I haven’t met anyone on telegram yet. Agreed if you somehow didn’t have infinite SMS in your plan you are taking an L

            • @[email protected]English
              1•6 months ago

              Unlimited SMS here are rare, and my carrier in particular does not have them at least on the lower-end plans. I rarely notice though.

              Telegram is popular here, especially among youth - my university groupchats are there, for example. Whatsapp is still probably bigger though.