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I'm from Europe and use SMS only, I don't get it how having a dozen of messaging apps and remembering who uses what is better than a simple SMS that I can send to absolutely anyone with a phone..

>>pkorze+(OP)
Pretty much this. I only ever send out SMS if I am the one who initiates the conversation on a phone, but other people send me messages on other apps.

However most of my instant messaging is done on a computer using discord, so I might not be in the prime user base of these apps

>>pkorze+(OP)
SMS is still used in France too.

> I don't get it how having a dozen of messaging apps and remembering who uses what is better than a simple SMS

Indeed, especially now that Telegram is taking off by times in Europe (in Belgium / Spain / France at least Telegram is getting used by a lot of people) and that some people now refuse to use WhatsApp.

In addition to appointment reminders from doctor/dentist/notary/whatever and delivery tracking numbers I still exchange SMS with quite some people.

It's not as if it was exactly hard to open and reply to a SMS you just received from someone: takes exactly the same time as answering using WhatsApp or Telegram.

>>pkorze+(OP)
I guess that varies from country to country. In Spain, it's WhatsApp for everybody with Telegram recently making inroads for specific topic groups.

SMS is used by companies to send notifications and asking for confirmation, even (ouch!) banks. I haven't sent one in more than a decade.

>>Tactic+81
> Indeed, especially now that Telegram is taking off by times in Europe (in Belgium / Spain / France at least Telegram is getting used by a lot of people)

Interesting, here in Germany, almost everyone I know has Signal and WhatsApp with some people using only one of them. Telegram I encountered from one US American living here, and from people into conspiracy theories.

>>Semaph+U1
When you're making these claims... are you actually looking at any aggregate survey or numbers... or are you doing the typical biased bubble "I've looked at 15 people I know" thing?

>>izacus+C4
I thought I had added "I know", but apparently I missed that, apologies. Fixed now. The 2nd sentence had the relevant "I encountered" part, not the first.

>>Semaph+U1
In my experience here in Germany, Signal usage has increased drastically in the last two years. When my daughter started a new school, I got enlisted in the parents group on Signal. Previously, parent groups or anything similar was an exclusive WhatsApp territory.

As for Telegram, people mostly use it to consume news. It basically replaced RSS readers for common people. Although its install base is relatively high, I have yet to receive a single private message over Telegram.

>>pkorze+(OP)
Same