What is your favorite messaging app?

Notmyrealname · May 15, 2021

Notmyrealname said: ↑

Hope I'm not too late. I have the money but unfortunately it is stuck in Nigeria (as gold bullion, of course). If you can send me $2,000,000,000,000,000 I can get the $50 released. Then I won't care a f*** what the pigeon does.
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On this theme:
"Brexit trade bonanza: UK eying 'absolutely huge' Nigeria deal - Truss aims for ANOTHER win"
https://www.express.co.uk/news/poli...ria-africa-investment-helen-grant-trade-envoy

Btw, I read that "eying" is used in the US, whereas the UK uses eyeing' - so I decided not to 'sic' it.

koolaukid · May 17, 2021

Jens K said: ↑

Favorite by far is signal, though I'm also using WhatsApp / Messenger if necessary.

Signal is currently the messenger that (in my opinion) is least likely to leak meta data (who are you talking to, and when) or actual chat contents to any interested third parties. Partly because they are committed not to do so, but more importantly, because they are trying to not hold any such information longer than necessary on a technical level.

Facebook (running WhatsApp and messenger) on the other hand is going to sell you to the highest bidder, especially if they can safely assume you're not protected by EU privacy regulations. With WhatsApp chat contents should be safe, but that's about it.
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From everything I've read, Signal is the most secure of the messaging apps. Messenger and Facebook retain your data and messages.

Phillippinesfan · May 19, 2021

Messenger works well for me. I like the voicecalls and video calls too. Filipinos also use viber and telegram quite a lot.

Phillippinesfan · May 19, 2021

Hah

Mark K said: ↑

The best messaging app in my experience, by some margin, is Wechat, but unfortunately not a lot of people outside of China use it.

It has a lot of really useful functions other apps don't, like sending and receiving money without transfer fees, pay bills, or count how many steps you've walked that day (if you're a fat b*****d). You can even shake your phone and a list of ladies (and gents) in the local area who would be interested to chat show up. Not that I've done that of course, I just heard about it......

I introduced a lot of my non-Chinese friends to it when I was living in China, and now they don't use anything else.

You wouldn't, however, want to spurt some anti-Chinese propaganda on there though
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Notmyrealname · May 19, 2021

Phillippinesfan said: ↑

Messenger works well for me. I like the voicecalls and video calls too. Filipinos also use viber and telegram quite a lot.
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I wrote this from what I know and have not recently researched it - so I am sure some here can add many other services: I think originally most people connected by video using yahoo - that was overtaken by skype, then Messenger (still probably the most popular), now Whatsapp (also very popular), Signal, Telegram, Viber, Discord, Hangouts, IMO, Line, Kik, WeChat. It must be a big problem for new online daters (my friend tells me) to find someone using the same service.

soup464 · May 19, 2021

Signal

Stampy · May 20, 2021

I have no issues with messenger but currently using telegram.

SpringYellow · May 25, 2021

soup464 said: ↑

Signal
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I'll try using it maybe after recollecting some Infos in their feedback.

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