Friends who message you via less acceptable or egregious apps.

it's used very heavily outside the US but not so much within

huh, had no idea. It's infinitely better than SMS

i could be wrong about that, its just based on my own observation

can confirm that yore mas all use whatsapp

WhatsApp has killed both SMS and email for social life stuff, IME. Hugely popular.

Also huge rolling group chats between friends/acquaintances, those have genuinely broadened my social life or renewed old bonds.

https://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/messaging-marketshare1.png

apparently Americans aren't too keen on instant messaging apps in general

only started using Whatsapp becasue of family in Barcelona where everyone uses it but it's all i use now

Does WhatsApp have ads yet?

facebook messenger would be completely fine if you weren't also required to download the messenger app to see messages

I wonder if they counted iMessage what the US usage number would be

The Facebook messenger stupidly huge, like 180mb, and gets rapidly bigger. Is ridiculous.

Typos.

i can't stand any of these. text me or fuck off. bloatware, all of it.

i mean, sure, there are times when this is a necessity, and have rec'd many lovely messages on all platforms, but i find the competitive practices of fb, google and apple in this space really offputting

texting is so limited, whatsapp trounces it in every way

WhatsApp >>>>>>

purely by accident/through circumstance i spend 90% of my time on wechat/line and the other 10% in sms, not because it's good but because it's there. the 4–5 people i'm closest to are facebook users and don't/won't use anything else.

it's pretty annoying to be passively squeezed out of social circles because i don't use facebook and old-timey friend groups have gradually forgotten i exist. i don't get invited to a lot of stuff because of this. recently i've considered making a facebook account but the downside is that i would have a facebook account.

Ive the same issue re Twitter. Dont ever look at my account, and sometimes find out I was hald-assedly invited to something important because I should have seen so and so's tweet about it. How is that any way to invite people to a thing.

also the way apps like whatsapp and linkedin nag the user to turn on notifications/share all contacts really fucks me off. i will decide how i use your app, thanks very much.

So no one uses Skype? I was under the impression that was one of the bigger ones.

years ago i asked linkedin to stop getting up my arse with the incessant "let us scrape all your contacts" nag screen and they were "guhh sorry it's a bug". it wasn't a bug.

xp i've used skype twice in the last two years, doesn't seem to be much need for it since every* app does voice/video calling.

What if the worst “app” to be contacted through is . . . ILX.

Every time on opening: "you have disabled push notifications" - yes, I'm aware of that. I was the person that disabled them.

ppl just use skype for video chat i think, or facetime

I have exactly 9 people who've ever whatsapped me, it was filed under 'Dating' at first because it was only when I went back into the scene that anyone ever asked to contact them on that. Mostly I use it when I'm contacting people out foreign, particularly if I'm sending a photo or something that I expect they'd rather receive via wi-fi than via a painful data plan.

Every time on opening: "you have disabled push notifications" - yes, I'm aware of that. I was the person that disabled them.

― Heavy Doors (jed_), Tuesday, 16 May 2017 11:39 (fifty-one minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i don't know whether whatsapp does this specific thing, but some apps hassle the christ out of you to turn on notifications, then barrage you with template nags begging you to open the app. all this cynical shit gets deleted.

I just had a customer complain his MMS messaging wasnt enabled on his phone, and my work colleagues answers were all "who uses MMS anymore!?". HELPFUL

agree, but generally speaking mms can be stupidly expensive if it's not in your plan. telstra was slogging me 50/75c per pic/vid last i checked.

"texting is so limited" what does this mean? why? what is wrong with it?

no sms group chat, no desktop client, no stickers

i guess I don't like talking to people that much

imessage does group chat, im not sure why SMS would need desktop access given its a phone thing, and stickers... gah!

fucken imessage. the messenger app for everyone as long as everyone has an iphone.

btw

im not sure why SMS would need desktop access given its a phone thing

i meant in reference to sms being limited. ftr i use desktop clients all the time, was only just using line to do exactly that.

only ever use skype or facetime when my parents phone me on it. in a weird way this technology, which i guess sort of did seem like how we imagined the future must be, seems to bore our generation but thrill the one that came before, at least ime. friends have told me the same thing about their parents and skype/facetime. a few weeks ago my dad facetimed me at about 1pm on a saturday, i was in bed with a horrible hangover, his face just appeared huge against the screen as he demanded help fixing the tv so he could watch a match that was starting in about 10 minutes - i then saw my own face as he saw it, bags under my eyes, his 34-year-old son obv in bed at 1pm, hungover. somehow managed to get through the call without permanently damaging our relationship.

WhatsApp seemed much more popular in the US several years ago when text messages still cost 10 cents each (or sometimes 20c) on many mobile plans. Now that texts are usually free here, WhatsApp use has declined.

I usually use texts or iMessage, which everyone with a cellphone (even a flip phone) will receive. Or email for long or more formal stuff.

ok, trying out whatsapp.
all ok on phone.
trying web/app version.
i am constantly being asked to scan the QR code.
i can then send a message, but next time, i have to scan one again.
i have ticked the 'keep me signed in' option.
is there a way to stop it demanding the QR code, or, is that just how it works ?

webb/app version

WHY

at work.
easier to chat to friends ...
as opposed to using phone all the time.

it's precisely 9,488 times easier to type with a proper keyboard than it is to dick around with a teeny tiny tappy-tap-tap phone keyboard with rubbish autocorrect

mark e: i think your thing is broken

will try the web/app version on my home based laptop later on.
could be a work based network restriction thing that makes me have to register every few seconds.
i totally agree re using a proper keyboard vs mobile.

if you don't use whatsapp ur old

https://media.giphy.com/media/xfD6mEBfQM3wk/giphy.gif

iirc what's app is ubiquitous everywhere except North America

based on the metric system obv

my coworker, originally from india, using whatsapp on his desktop computer as I dropped by this morning

only ever use skype or facetime when my parents phone me on it. in a weird way this technology, which i guess sort of did seem like how we imagined the future must be, seems to bore our generation but thrill the one that came before, at least ime. friends have told me the same thing about their parents and skype/facetime. a few weeks ago my dad facetimed me at about 1pm on a saturday, i was in bed with a horrible hangover, his face just appeared huge against the screen as he demanded help fixing the tv so he could watch a match that was starting in about 10 minutes - i then saw my own face as he saw it, bags under my eyes, his 34-year-old son obv in bed at 1pm, hungover. somehow managed to get through the call without permanently damaging our relationship.

― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Tuesday, May 16, 2017 9:06 AM (six hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Lol. I always pull the old "let's switch to audio only as my connection doesn't seem to be that good" plug on unannounced video calls, they're a faux pas in my book. Though tbh my parents don't even know how to facetime, which is a huge blessing. Friends *know* this is not done.

yes, my parents constantly insist on facetime instead of a normal phone call. This is made worse by the fact that my phone is Android, so when they call on facetime, it comes up on my wife's phone, which she loves.

Oof. Grounds for divorce.

will try the web/app version on my home based laptop later on.
could be a work based network restriction thing that makes me have to register every few seconds.

well, installed whatsapp desktop app on home laptop and get exactly the same problem.
i checked, and there is no W10 app available via the Windows Store,
you have to get the d/l from the whatsapp website, and that only makes reference to W8, not W10.
suspect there is a slight bug when it comes to useage on a W10 laptop, hence no official app via the W10 store.

I use a combo of mime and interpretive dance.

trayce otm, ultimately it doesn't matter what we prefer because we end up using what everyone else uses

now that I know we can, I might sign all my ILX posts with a skype emoji

https://az705183.vo.msecnd.net/onlinesupportmedia/onlinesupport/media/skype/screenshots/fa12330/emoticons/discodancer_anim.gif