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Re:Facebook has lost $100B in 10 days and now advertisers ar... by phinnaeus on Monday March 26, 2018 @07:56PM (#16683874)
Do android users actually uses Hangouts? I have a couple of friends on it but my understanding is that Android users (like myself) just stick with standard SMS/MMS in the US. Patiently waiting for Universal RCS to take off...
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Re:Facebook has lost $100B in 10 days and now advertisers ar... by saym on Monday March 26, 2018 @08:10PM (#16683958)
I know this is just anecdotal, but my friends and I do heavily use Hangouts.

It doesn't have enough functionality on its own, but I've augmented our experience with a chatbot powered by https://github.com/hangoutsbot/hangoutsbot.

Obviously I don't think that this experience is typical, not everyone is a programmer or has a server on which to run it.

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Re:Facebook has lost $100B in 10 days and now advertisers ar... by becomingknown on Monday March 26, 2018 @08:42PM (#16684138)
Nope. Hangout is not at all a convenient app. Main Android apps after Whatsapp are Telegram, Kik, imo and WeChat.
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Re:Facebook has lost $100B in 10 days and now advertisers ar... by int_19h on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @12:02AM (#16685123)
Hangouts also does SMS. And, on Nexus phones at least, it does it by default.
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