What if ISP with other brands send SMS advertisement to your device? This is truly platform independent.
Assume it does not have those "freeze gates" when using iMessage.
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Companies have to make money one way or another. So I do understand, but I really am not force to use it.
Messenger feels like an Android app for iPhone anyway... Cumbersome (not Cumberbatch
) and I am not in the mood to even try to understand it especially if they put ads in it.
Messenger feels like an Android app for iPhone anyway... Cumbersome (not Cumberbatch
) and I am not in the mood to even try to understand it especially if they put ads in it.
I hoped that the messenger app was a truly free contribution to the world while the Facebook app shows ads. Guess I was wrong.
But now we have ads to along with the data-farming, so I guess that's just Facebook's way of being honest?
Use app called "Friendly", its basically an app that displays your FBin mobile mode + you can read messages without having to use messenger. I deleted FB and messenger app long time ago, and my battery is quite thankful.
I think the point that was made was that if you send an iMessage (e.g. a picture) to someone not on iMessage, then you probably switch from sending a free picture to an MMS that you would likely be charged for.
Except, considering 86% of smartphone users are on Android, that's a lot of people who you can't contact using iMessage.
Necessary? I have never used it at all, still happy.
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Choose your friends wisely...
Odd. I seem perfectly capable of texting Android users on my iPhone. The messages still get through just fine.
"Facebook" and "honest" are two words that should rarely ever share the same sentence. As soon as they went public, everyone should have realized that the gig was up, and that money and how to make it was what they were going to focus on.
That's not iMessage, that's SMS, the universal service iMessage reverts to when the recipient doesn't have iMessage or iMessage fails.
Facebook is only still relevant because middle aged people and grandparents are on it now, keeping the user base going. The younger generations have moved on from that steaming pile.
Facebook can f*** off lol
I'm just glad Telegram exists, completely free and never gonna even try to make a profit either. Not to mention the quality of the app itself. I'm glad I finally got rid of facebook after having had to use it to talk to certain people...
I'm just glad Telegram exists, completely free and never gonna even try to make a profit either. Not to mention the quality of the app itself. I'm glad I finally got rid of facebook after having had to use it to talk to certain people...
Like I give a fxxx about a billion of these Android users in China? All I care is a circle of 20+ friends I communicate with. And the majority of them use iPhone.
I finally pulled that trigger last night.
I just do not like it at all anymore. IMHO, there is nothing but negative BS every time I log in. Even most of the people I have as friends have nothing else to do but complain or talk trash about something or someone. Messenger just keeps seeming to get worse and with ads I am definitely out.
Good for you! I did the same a few months ago. It was all so negative and overwhelming and once FB started spamming my newsfeed when key words were somehow triggered in replies between me and my friends, I could not keep up anymore. Plus there are always at least two people who do nothing but spam the newsfeed with as many as 15 reposts a day. There are some days these people do as many as five reposts an hour for the entire time they are awake.
And Go Fund Me and fundraisers of that type can be a wonderful thing. I was happy to be able to contribute to many deserving causes. But there is a very ugly flip side to the GoFundMe phenomena and FB smacks you hard in the face with it. At the time I left, it was becoming a near weekly thing to have to find a way to gracefully sidestep people you love dearly wanting you to fund their kids, their pets, their kids' pets, their kids' friends and kids' friends pets' chiropractor's fundraiser for alpacas wanting to go to math camp. Or something to that effect.
People don't generally do this sort of thing to you in email. I am afraid the changes to iMessage will make this behavior popular there, too. So I have withdrawn socially from the online world and communicate only with email and the occasional phone call. I do sometimes miss the camaraderie on FB. It was for a brief time a fun way to share good family news. It went to hell fast.
Impure garbage, I think. Actually toxic probably, but I don't get it anyway.
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There's a lot of people I don't contact anyhow, especially if they're on android, and my friends that started on androids, are almost all on iPhones now, with no prompting from me. Not that it would have helped.
I probably don't have enough time to contact 86% of (sort of) smartphone users anyway.
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But who's counting?
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Most of them don't speak English either. Not that that's a problem, I'm just not multilingual any more.If they use Android, they aren't even worth contacting
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And plenty of those from younger generation or any generation are on it as well. Ultimately people use whatever works for them based on their needs/wants.