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Aside from a couple non-US friends, I know no one in the US who uses anything other than straight SMS (and Apple iMessage). I'm sure they exist but certainly no
by ghaff 2y ago
Aside from a couple non-US friends, I know no one in the US who uses anything other than straight SMS (and Apple iMessage). I'm sure they exist but certainly not in the circle of people I communicate with.
- BenjiWiebe 2y agoThere's definitely different circles in the US. My circle of friends and family is on Whatsapp. More than 99% of my communications would be through WhatsApp.
- lotsofpulp 2y agoEveryone I know in the US uses either iMessage or Whatsapp. No one I know uses MMS.
- ectospheno 2y agoEveryone I know uses signal. Different people really are different.
- ghaff 2y agoFor whatever reason, chat seems to definitely encourage tribalism. The last company I worked for eventually bought into Slack because so many people WOULD NOT use anything else while a lot of us were like "ANOTHER chat app??" because we were perfectly happy with Gchat which we had as part of Google Workplace. I know there are some historical reasons for non-SMS because of text pricing outside the US but everyone I know in the US would look at you funny if you wanted to use some special app for texting.
- ahaseeb 2y agoiMessage is very much a US thing. Most of the Non US people or people with international connection exclusively use messaging App ( whatsapp, Telegram, Signal)