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Re:Study: Staying off Facebook can make you happier by threatofrain on Thursday November 12, 2015 @11:33PM (#10558017)
As a tangent, I've found that phone + email are the truly general options across what is anecdotally to me the Balkan social networks. I've also come to realize that everyone views their social network as obvious, and everyone also loathes to download anyone else's social network app.

But email + phone is international, nobody feels like you burdened them by asking them to get a Google account, and nowadays email and phone is all managed through a synced solution on your phone / devices. As a "workflow", contacting someone via phone or email can feel as fluid as any other app.

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Re:Study: Staying off Facebook can make you happier by sdrothrock on Friday November 13, 2015 @01:17AM (#10558285)
I know many people to whom e-mail is a third-class citizen when it comes to regular communication -- they only check their e-mail once a week, if that.
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Re:Study: Staying off Facebook can make you happier by scopeofwerks on Friday November 13, 2015 @12:10AM (#10558129)
Yep, if i want contact with people I will sms, call or email. I keep a small email list of close friends and we communicate better through this channel than any other and it's not platform dependent. All the people who don't engage through these more traditional methods I probably wasn't going to have any meaningful contact with anyway so nothing is really lost by moving away from a dedicated social platform.
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