Most of Telegram's advantages come from: * anonymous accounts. You need a phone number to set up an account, but you don't need to share your phone to talk to

Most of Telegram's advantages come from: * anonymous accounts. You need a phone number to set up an account, but you don't need to share your phone to talk to people on it * network effects. The sticker game is great on Telegram because there are so many people on it making stickers. * the secure chat *option*. It has an option of being secure and so therefore people think it's secure and when they find out it's not secure all the time, they're still happy that it has the option of being secure.