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How to Use Your WhatsApp Account Across Multiple Phones
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Don't bother, most people in U.S. don't care anything across U.S. borders. So, you want to return golden 90s-2000s, when there was e.g. ICQ with UINs and nobody had a care to link a phone number to literally everything. Technologies ruled by marketers now, not by technicians. So now we suffer. E.g. Telegram can add multiple accounts, and many people now uses it. But WhatsApp still very popular across non-techie people, so I must use number of that country where WhatsApp is most used by me, Viber number in another country where Viber is more popular, and so on... What a shame, how we got this "future"?
Not sure what you mean by - "so I must use number of that country where WhatsApp is most used by me"
That's just a personal choice
I used an old WhatsApp number for over 5 years despite the fact I had left the country and I change my phone at least annually
Hello Steve.Not sure what you mean by - "so I must use number of that country where WhatsApp is most used by me"
That's just a personal choice
I used an old WhatsApp number for over 5 years despite the fact I had left the country and I change my phone at least annually
a) When you give number of another country to someone local it leads to unnecessary questions.
b) Many non-techie people can’t add number of another country, they just don’t know how to enter it in address book. I faced several such cases.
c) All in all, everything is our personal choice: I’d like not to use all these time-consuming chats at all. However, key factor there is not me but the person with whom I want to communicate. Especially, if I am in need of this communication, and not him. And if we met for the first (and maybe last) time I cannot start nagging “oh, I don’t use WhatsApp, it’s inconvenient/insecure/etc., let’s use something else”—for sure, it will be my last phrase to that person.
but Signal is just a bit crap... I want to like it but I only have three people I talk to on it (all of who are on other services) and it's lack of message sync between devices is too big of a gap for me to spend too much time liking it all that much...
Telegram is okay...
How to not use WhatsApp at all!
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Signal - Private Messenger
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I’ve tried at least twice over the years, it wouldn’t go past the request for access to my contacts …
Well how are you supposed to message anyone (short of manually adding the number for EVERY message you want to send...?)
I want to control who can message me 🤷🏻
I think giving full contacts access to any non-essential app isn’t a great idea.
I like how Skype do it, you can only message me if I give you my username or email address (or phone number if you use skype that way).
Think your considering this slightly wrong
Importing your contacts is to tell you who you can WhatsApp, so likewise the reverse is true for someone to contact you ie they have to have your number like Skype
If your worried about nuisance contacts or especially want to stop someone in your contacts list then use the block feature inside WhatsApp
