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Am I the only one who still uses hangouts? For some reason its the app my wife and I use, i dont use it with anyone else. It's handy that it pops up in chrome,

• soylentcola 6y ago
  I still use it. Partly it's habitual since "GChat" was a big reason I got my first Gmail account many years ago. At the time, most IM platforms required you to install a separate application, but since it ran in the browser, I could keep a Gmail tab open at work or at on university PCs and keep in touch with Gmail contacts (as well as AIM contacts which was still a decent number of people back then). I still use it because it's available on Windows, MacOS, and Linux as well as both Android and iOS devices. My friends and family are on a variety of platforms but we can all use Hangouts. I still dislike some of the changes they've made as it moved from the old Google Talk to Hangouts but being able to follow conversations on mobile and in my browser is great. I have a few friends who use iPhones and occasionally complain because they want to use iMessage, but a good 30-40% of us can't run it since we don't own iPhones or Apple computers.
• taborj 6y ago
  I have a handful of friends who I chat with daily via Hangouts. Text only, though (though I did once do a video call with one while I was strolling through Disneyland, back when we could still stroll through Disneyland). It's a great solution, and it'll be a shame if Google ever really gets rid of it.
• hkchad 6y ago
  Daily. I also use Google Voice so it's my SMS app.