What messaging apps do aussies expect from you?

[oz_mark]

Mostly Facebook Messenger, with one or two still on WhatsApp.

Used to be Viber, but I don't know anyone still on it.

Edit: Work people find me on Teams

 

[jb747]

iMessage. SMS.

 

[Franky]

iMessage. SMS.

Yep - using the good old KISS principle...

 

[Daver6]

Yep - using the good old KISS principle...

Just stick to Morse code over a telegraph. It works. Still waiting for the latest emoji to be added though

 

[bresky]

I guess it depends on age bracket as well.

 

[RooFlyer]

I guess it depends on age bracket as well.

I don't think daver6 is that old!

 

[TomVexille]

As Whatsapp is now facebook, and is collecting data for the mothership, work has banned its use

 

[qaz]

But no iPhone mandatory?

only to iMessage those who KISS

iMessage. SMS.

Yep - using the good old KISS principle...

With the privacy issues of WhatsApp, a number of my friends including myself have moved to Signal. I also have Telegram as well. But I still have WhatsApp because some of my other friends have not yet moved over.

As Whatsapp is now facebook, and is collecting data for the mothership, work has banned its use

yes, besides its parent, Facebook, blocking news, government and not-for-profit websites the other week, the widespread alarm over WhatsApp's planned privacy update has been a wake-up call for many people previously not more aware of the data that WhatsApp collects and uses, who have thus since left it

all apps on Apple's App Store now have privacy labels to disclose such information

‎WhatsApp Messenger

‎With WhatsApp for Mac, you can conveniently sync all your chats to your computer. Message privately, make calls and share files with your friends, family and colleagues.

apps.apple.com

in terms of security and privacy, the best cross-platform messaging apps are considered to be Signal, Threema, Viber

You might already be aware of it, but Telegram probably has worse privacy than WhatsApp.

hope you're not confusing privacy with security?

Edit: What happened to texting and email, for communicating. Not apps of course

both can be neither secure nor private

 

[Daver6]

hope you're not confusing privacy with security?

I'm not

 

[bresky]

iMessage could be great if it were multi-platform. I think Apple thinks sometime on the future everybody will just use an iPhone, which to be true is not an open standard. I remember back in the day when BlackBerry Messenger was the most used protocol, then when Android and iPhone appeared, RIM refused to publish his app for their platforms. I think nowadays is available but don't recall of anybody using it.

In europe people used mostly Nokia with Symbian until Android and iPhone became a thing. Only some girls used berries because of free chat.

 

[Vic]

Is it just me, or does this thread feel like market research?

Just stick to Morse code over a telegraph. It works. Still waiting for the latest emoji to be added though

Not really the telegraph network is extremely limited in this day and age.
It does do emojis however:
.-. --- .-.. .-.. . -.-- . ...

 

[Daver6]

Is it just me, or does this thread feel like market research?


Not really the telegraph network is extremely limited in this day and age.
It does do emojis however:
.-. --- .-.. .-.. . -.-- . ...

The internet has a solution for everything Morse Code over IP

 

[DC3]

Is it just me, or does this thread feel like market research?

I think that we have a winner.

 

[Flashback]

You've already listed the main ones I use.

FWIW, the only reason I use WhatsApp is to talk to non-Australian friends. Most of my Aussie friends don't use it.

Weird Aussies

All my friends use WhatsApp, we loathe/detest FB Messenger (yes, aware it's owned by the same company .... but the interface and features are rubbish). I have one friend who moved to Signal with the latest 'scandal' around WhatsApp, but he's now very lonely and has no one to talk to.

 

[VPS]

Weird Aussies

All my friends use WhatsApp, we loathe/detest FB Messenger (yes, aware it's owned by the same company .... but the interface and features are rubbish). I have one friend who moved to Signal with the latest 'scandal' around WhatsApp, but he's now very lonely and has no one to talk to.

Absolute ditto

 

[PineappleSkip]

I mostly use SMS in Australia, FB messenger if I have to. Overseas its 80% whatsapp, 20% and growing Signal. And all of the above for old fashioned talk, and skype, which can do voice when the others conk out due to lack of bandwidth. Some send me files over skype.

 

[Milefest]

It's a bit of a spread for me... Zoom for video calls. Slack for work. Signal for AU friends. FB messenger for family not on signal, Whatsapp for friends I haven't converted to Signal... yet.

 

[jakeseven7]

I guess it depends on age bracket as well.

Yes be careful on AFF the average age appears to be.... old

 

[Berlin]

Like most of my overseas friends too- Imessage for the Apple users and otherwise either Signal or Telegram with a few ones still holding out on Whatsapp. I avoid Facebook like the plague so as soon as the last two or three friends move on, that'll be farewell to Whatsapp forever.