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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No idea. It’s just not a platform anyone in my life has used in a manner that dragged me in.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Two letters. US.

They use SMS still.

Unless everyone they know has iPhones.

Then it’s iMessage.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Surely it can't be so popular it's inconceivable to you that someone hasn't used it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you live in most of Europe or definitely Latin America, yeah, it is so popular it's kind of inconceivable not to use it, or at least hard to imagine. I genuinely don't understand how people in the US communicate.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You text someone. What're you talking about?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you send an SMS in Europe, you get no answer most of the time

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

All the better

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I've used SMS exactly 3 times in my life, all 10+ years ago. My phone plan doesn't even include SMS anymore. It boggles my mind that people use SMS in the US, and I mean that seriously.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It is. To stay in contact with anyone you need whatsapp.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Well I'm glad that isn't happening here, because I would just have to miss everything.