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Refusing to use Signal: "I have too many messaging apps" (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago by citytree@lemmy.ml to c/signal@lemmy.ml

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Not sure if any of you have encountered the same resistance to using Signal. Some of my cousins refused to use Signal because they are already using "too many chat apps" (e.g. WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, WeChat, Telegram, Line, Snapchat, etc.). To them, Signal will just be another chat app among their numerous other chat apps. I understand that jumping between so many messaging apps imposes some kind of cognitive and maintenance burden. What are some ways to convince such people to use Signal?

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[–] TimTamFlimFlam@discuss.tchncs.de 36 points 2 years ago (7 children)

It was a lot easier to convince people (and myself) to use signal when it also did SMS. When that feature was removed it certainly felt like another app to worry about.

[–] macrocephalic@lemmy.fmhy.ml 6 points 2 years ago

Yep. Once SMS was gone then all my contacts left and I had no reason to keep it. I unfortunately had to install WhatsApp as that was where the critical mass was.

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