Everyone in the US (if there is at least one android user in the chat)
SMS is the old, WhatsApp/Telegram/Messenger/Signal/Discord/etc is the new.
No thanks, I'll stick to SMS.
For this reason alone, I greatly prefer iMessage/discord/slack/whateverIsNext so I can use it on my phone and my computers.
I get that's not your experience, but it is indeed an experience that exists, and is probably fairly common.
More than 95% of my personal communication with other humans I know (remote communication, that is, not in-person, obviously) is in WhatsApp. The rest is phone and SMS and that's all older family.
SMS, like email, is mainly for machines to talk to me.
This is wild to me. I'm squarely in the middle of the millennial generation and I've never used WhatsApp and I've never known anyone that uses it. Nearly all of my personal communication is through Messages on my iPhone/iPad/Mac.
I would estimate iOS has 99% market share among my social network, including nuclear and extended family. It’s been a long time since I’ve seen a green bubble.
It's time to switch to Signal. (Telegram and most of the others are not end to end encrypted.)
And get your contact spread over 4 differents messaging App and consequently have all of them installed.
I also do 95+% of my driving in a single car, and 95+% of my text editing in a single program. 95ish% of my browsing in a single browser. Not locked in to those, either—in all three cases I've switched before without difficulty, and likely will again. I have no idea where the lock-in notion's coming from.
It means that switching costs are high. With the exception of losing chat history (which I was surprised to find most people don't seem to care about), switching costs between chat platforms are virtually nonexistent.