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i have it turned off. texts are free; what's the point of it?

― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, August 21, 2013 2:55 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark

- text message from your keyboard
- text message ppl in other countries
- group text convos

whatsapp, wechat, line, etc. all better than imessage

text messages are free? i don't pay for a text plan (which a min $10 extra on my carrier now, bleah) so iMessage is a godsend; most of my friends have iPhones or iPods

xpost the ppl i give a shit abt talking to don't use that shit

facebook works fine for most purposes, actually.

i have it turned off. texts are free; what's the point of it?

― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, August 21, 2013 2:55 PM (25 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

v useful to be able to "text" using the internet if you live in a mobile phone developing country, e.g. the usa.

I've got one important iMessage group chat and it's useful for messaging my partner who has an old slider phone and limited texts, but has an iPod touch. Nobody I know uses whatsapp, as far as I know.

Nobody I know uses whatsapp, as far as I know.

yeah a lot of this stuff obv depends on who you're trying to reach

iMessage is a lot better than those others because it's transparent and will default back to text, imo

google needs to get their shit together in some ways, though, because I would text a friend and his response would go to google talk back in the day since I wasn't on an android device but DID have a google talk acct

i wonder how hangouts is doing for them

it works better, in my experience, when it comes to sending things intelligently

does gchat have an official app? i would use that all the time

i think hangouts might be what you're looking for

someone back me up on this tho

yeah, gchat is/will be retired in lieu of hangouts and it has an app

how many of you use gchat and how extensively? i'm curious b/c, while i've used it before, i def don't use it now and uninstalled hangouts from my ipad

no one uses aim, right?

i can't remember the last time i logged onto that, but it has to have been at least like . . . well over three/four years ago or w/e

every day at work to chat with a couple non-coworker friends intermittently

I think a couple ilxors use aim but I'm not going to name names

at work we've been moved over to "Lync"

whatsapp, wechat, line, etc. all better than imessage

― 乒乓, Wednesday, August 21, 2013 3:10 PM (46 minutes ago) Bookmark

no

i dont have a single friend who uses those, so they are useless

and imessage and text live in teh same window—if someone im imessaging isn't data-online, it'll default to text. and vice versa. i never have to guess if someone has got my message or not.

i realised a girl was too young for me once because she asked me if i was on whatsapp

i dont have a single friend who uses those, so they are useless

― socki (s1ocki), Wednesday, August 21, 2013 3:57 PM (59 seconds ago) Bookmark

what are you doing with an iphone, grandpa

imessaging my butt off

and having the time of my life doing it!!!

high fives

I use facebook messages for people if I don't have their phone number but talk to them on there. Plus it's more casual and kind of a reasonable default

mostly drunk-messaging s1ocki though

imessage is cool in that you can send anigifs

the feeling when u see the message change to green. terrible

ooh

all the ones that pretend to be more interesting than text messages have 'stickers' now :/

that animated cat sticker thing on fb is cool though, he's chill and also a cat

wait, so you guys don't just have gmail / gchat open in a browser tab all day long at work?

sure do

it was too hard to figure out how to get people not on my list onto my list and people on my list off of my list. also having unread chats show up in your inbox, terrible

hangouts is really shit at list management, this is true

am i the only person in the world using adium for gchat

last man chatting

i had all these people who had only ever emailed me once, maybe because of a craigslist ad or something, on my gchat list.... made me feel like a stranger in my own inbox

I do sometimes, it's a good client (re: adium)

also whenever two people want to chat w/ each other but they both had gchat set to 'invisible'... ah... is there anything sadder... a sadder story was never told

adium!! i think i used that on OS 9??

adium has always been OS X

burn

invisible gchatters rankle me. i think it's a power thing for them

I Was Once An Invisible GChatter... And I Will Explain Why. Story Inside

its a holdover from middle and high school days when u didnt want to be the weirdo loner dude who was on aim 24/7. dont be that guy

but then everybody is cool now w being on the internet 24/7. but habits are hard to shake