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Re:Deleting Facebook permanently by tdfx on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @12:49PM (#25660181)
> Everybody I know is on Whatsapp/Signal

I wish I could say this. It seems the US is the only country where everyone wants to continue using SMS/iMessage for everything. It's literally the only way to communicate with most of my American friends.

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Re:Deleting Facebook permanently by dhsysusbsjsi on Thursday January 07, 2021 @01:26AM (#25667896)
The last three weeks I’ve slowly been moving all of my friends and group chats onto Signal (from WhatsApp, which is about to be a huge privacy disaster. If it’s not already...)

Most non-nerd friends just do what they’re told and love the idea of “Signal is WhatsApp but Zuck isn’t reading your messages”.

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Re:Deleting Facebook permanently by pmarreck on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @01:07PM (#25660393)
> It seems the US is the only country where everyone wants to continue using SMS/iMessage for everything.

I use Whatsapp regularly and it still can't hold a candle to iMessage. I blame Android adoption, and the fact that Google never built an iMessage competitor so they are stuck with 20 year old SMS.

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Re:Deleting Facebook permanently by MarkSweep on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @02:18PM (#25661118)
Google does have RCS:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Communication_Services

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