> A trick I’ve developed, when giving my contact info to new people, is to enter my phone number on their smartphone myself, and install Signal for them. This r

> A trick I’ve developed, when giving my contact info to new people, is to enter my phone number on their smartphone myself, and install Signal for them. This removed a lot of friction. I would then explain my experiment to them and tell them I can only be contacted via this app. I’ve always had a positive reaction. Everybody’s been curious and asking a lot of questions. Yikes. I love signal but if I handed someone my phone and they tried to install an app, even while explaining it, I'd be pretty annoyed with them. Someone else holding your phone is a pretty vulnerable place to be now a days.