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In the US it's a real pain because we haven't had a popular national IM client since AOL Instant Messenger. Texting is the only way we can reliably communicate
by solardev 3y ago
In the US it's a real pain because we haven't had a popular national IM client since AOL Instant Messenger. Texting is the only way we can reliably communicate with other Americans, but the compatibility isn't great. Group chats, reactions, emoji etc. are all different. When an iPhone user thumbs up a message, all the android users get spammed with a message like "soandso loved: full quote of message". Our culture is really behind the times.
I have zero issues communicating with people in Asia over Line or Europeans using WhatsApp. But I can't reliably text the people living in my same town, lol. Welcome to the USA.