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I've never understood why people like BBM. It's almost no different from texting except you need to have another number and both people need blackberries.

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It's because you don't have to pay per-message, and there's groups.

i.e. cheap and fast.

Like iMessages (iPhone) and Google Voice/GroupMe (Android)?

but don't you have to pay the blackberry monthly fee or something?

Groups are convenient I guess.

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