Thread 216156360

>Anon, give me your phone number so I can add you to the class group chat.
>Uhh...I don't have a phone.
>...
Does this happen in your country?

>>216156360 (OP)
Everyone has a phone tho? How will you post on 4chan while shitting or driving otherwise

>>216156360 (OP)
>>Uhh...I don't have a phone.
Sadly I don't think that's possible anymore these days, every darn service requires a phone number

>>216156465
The only mobile device I have is the tablet our school gave us with which I posted a few times here.
>>216156548
Yeah...No 2FA and I have to use my mother's phone for my credit card.

This is the look I got in Europe when I would tell girls I don't use WhatsApp and don't ever plan to

>>216156360 (OP)
This does not happen in my country. Even my old parents have smartphones now because every damn thing requires an app.

>>216156633
What messenger do you use besides WhatsApp?

>>216156680
lets not kid ourselves telegram is the best one out and it dosent scare the hoes

>>216156667
Yeah, so does my grandfather. He keeps telling me to get a phone to be available at all times but that's exactly what I want to avoid.
>>216156743
Telegram is to WhatsApp what BitChute is to Youtube. People look at it as this esoteric knowledge shit.

>>216156887
Everyone just wrote their phone on a sheet of paper when we first started with school and they asked me why I didn't write mine down.

>>216156680
Everyone in the US just uses the default texting app on the phone

>>216157203
Like what? SMS?

>>216156821
normies are on it now though

>>216157292
I dunno. Looking it up it seems iPhone to iPhone uses the iMessage system, otherwise it Android to iPhone or Android to Android used RCS or falls back to SMS/MMS.
Most Americans are just confused why you would download a separate app to text.
Only time i was ever asked about WhatsApp was some foreign student.

>>216157670
Sms here is expensive as fuck . I used to use it in 2010 or so

I didn't own a phone until 4th year of college because I had no friends.

>>216158207
Oh yea right heard some places still charge for texting and shit (which is why i assume other countries use shit like WhatsApp?)
Unlimited talk and text and been standard here for a long time.

>>216158271
when was this, 2005?

>>216158508
2016

>>216156680
Everyone here uses either iMessage or whatever Google's equivalent is called, which are both web-enhanced versions of SMS/MMS and will still use them as a fallback if the web features don't work for whatever reason.

SMS was already extremely popular well before smartphones here and unlimited SMS has been a stock feature of phone plans here since the late 2000s so that's what everyone is used to

>>216156360 (OP)
Yes. And when I finally had one I would still tell people I didnt have one to get bullied for not having a phone. I dont know whats wrong with me.

Over a decade ago, yea. My family was hella poor. When I moved to a bigger town in 5th grade and got introduced to my new class I was the only one there without a phone. A couple months later my parents were able to get me a tiny Nokia phone with a keypad so they'd have a way to call me in case of an emergency. Didn't have any internet at home either, I accessed it only in school and internet cafes. I did at least have a low end PC which my parents got from someone else, and I was able to get some pirated games through other people. I finally got a smart phone and home internet in my third year of high school. Naturally I was ridiculed a lot for all those years by other kids, and not being able to spend nights texting with people is a huge handicap in a teenage zoomer social life. But I didn't think it was a big deal, my parents gave me all they got. Other kids bitched and moaned despite having everything I dreamed of at the time