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Seems weird to me to use an unencrypted ancient format
I'm just giving anecdotal evidence, just like you gave ๐คทโโ๏ธ I'm not promoting one way of communicating vs another.
Unencrypted is not the thing that bothers me - after all, Telegram is so popular, so not like most people even care. What bothers me is that you still need to pay for each one! You have to edit the texts to fit into a tiny arbitrary character restriction or else you's be charged for a second message! Why is data do relatively cheap, but those messages are still overpriced?
Mobile plans as standard here (in the UK) offer SMS for free, can't remember when they used to routinely charge tbh. But I think I only text my dad as he's very old school, everyone else is Signal/WhatsApp/Telegram
Huh I haven't met anyone on telegram yet. Agreed if you somehow didn't have infinite SMS in your plan you are taking an L
Unlimited SMS here are rare, and my carrier in particular does not have them at least on the lower-end plans. I rarely notice though.
Telegram is popular here, especially among youth - my university groupchats are there, for example. Whatsapp is still probably bigger though.