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Apparently 1.3B people like it! I have used many messengers over the years, starting with IRC in the 90s, then ICQ, Skype, FB messenger, Discord, Slack, Telegra
by p1esk 4y ago
Apparently 1.3B people like it! I have used many messengers over the years, starting with IRC in the 90s, then ICQ, Skype, FB messenger, Discord, Slack, Telegram, and of course countless forums. By 2012 or so everyone had an iPhone, and texting was really popular, so group chat emerged as a preferred method of communication between family and close friends and gradually group chats had formed within my extended family on 3 continents. Honestly I don’t see much difference between all the different messaging apps, so I just use whatever everyone else uses.
- ghusto 4y agoThis is interesting. I had a dive into all this since I initially posted, and it seems this iMessage phenomena is a U.S.A. thing. iMessage is mostly unused in Europe, iPhone or not. I don't care much for Whatsapp myself and prefer Signal, but I eventually gave up because life's too short for crusades. Reading up on the iMessage adoption in the U.S.A. is like reading alternative-history fiction in Europe :P