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Then MSN, then skype.

For 5 years, people were pestering you about giving them "your facebook".

Then came the photo era, with filters, emojis, morphing, animations, etc. With insta, and the likes.

Last years, you would have been a paria for not having a whatsapp account.

Now of course, you got the occasional signal, telegram, teams and zoom, thanks to covid.

But you know what was working in 2000, 2005, 2010, 2015 and 2020 and will work and 2025, with everybody, and everywhere ?

SMS and emails.

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> you know what was working in 2000, 2005, 2010, 2015 and 2020 and will work and 2025, with everybody, and everywhere ? SMS and emails.

I genuinely can’t recall having had a single standard SMS conversation with anyone in the last ~10 years. It’s all WhatsApp, Line, Telegram, IG, or WeChat.

I realize my perception is skewed by living outside the US, but the only people who SMS me these days are delivery services and banks.

> but the only people who SMS me these days are delivery services and banks.

So they still work. If anybody would send you an sms, without you having to create any new account, they would reach you, and you could answer. No need to "add contact", no need to login. In fact, it this person will still be able to send you a text in 10 years.

But in 10 years, most people will have moved on from whatsapp, line or IG to the new sexy thing. Not WeChat I guess, because it's becoming the credit card for 1 billion chinese.

And yet, you will still have an email address.

> If anybody would send you an sms, without you having to create any new account, they would reach you, and you could answer. No need to "add contact", no need to login.

Honestly, as a consumer I would prefer that this not be the case. I want to be able to control the ways in which people can contact me; I actually keep a separate number for WhatsApp specifically so that people who have my voice number can’t find me on there.

> In fact, it this person will still be able to send you a text in 10 years.

Assuming my number doesn’t change, which anecdotally feels way less common now. When I was a kid it was normal for eg my parents to have the same phone number for 30 years, but these days people seem to switch much more freely.

> I realize my perception is skewed by living outside the US

I too live outside the US, and never use SMS for communicating with another human. It's all WhatsApp/Signal etc. WhatsApp is ubiquitous.

I'm curious — do Americans use SMS a lot (as opposed to things like WhatsApp)?

I was in US a few years ago, and from what I gathered most people did not use WhatsApp. Don't know if the situation has changed.

Yes, SMS usage is quite frequent. I use some other apps for groupchats or talking to foreign friends. It depends on your social circle, I have groupchats with SMS, GroupMe, Matrix/Element, and Kakaotalk.

In Korea I never used SMS, just Kakaotalk 99% of the time.

I live outside the US and use SMS daily to communicate. Of the ones you mentioned, the only other one I see people using is Instagramm (Facebook messenger).

Try spinning up your own email server in 2022 and you may find sending email through the anti-spam cabal is both more difficult than creating a facebook account and about as decentralized.

Try spinning out your own facebook.

emails are so phenomenal. However email security is so so bad. User experience of pgp is crap. :(

But agree emails still work as standard. SMS not for me. The number might change :)

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