I started using it because the UI is flawless and because I never installed WhatsApp and I never will. I don't have false hope about the "security" and "privac

I started using it because the UI is flawless and because I never installed WhatsApp and I never will. I don't have false hope about the "security" and "privacy" of Telegram that said: but it's a great messaging app which, by now, a huge number of people are using. At my kid's previous school and at my kid's current school there are parents using Telegram. Sure WhatsApp is still the most common one but Telegram is not unheard off. 700 millions users is quite something. Hardly a week goes by without Telegram telling me: "xxx joined Telegram". Last week I re-connected with a friend I hadn't talked to in a long time because I saw he just joined Telegram. Said hi to him, sent him a few pictures. I don't know who brought him to Telegram but he ended up using it and he's definitely not a techie. At this rate in two years they'll have 1 billion users. Maybe it'll even snowball at some point. This is competition to WhatsApp. 700 million users and growing is not nothing.