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I'm no fan of Facebook either, but if they collapse and die one day soon, one thing I'll really miss is FB Messenger. I just haven't found anything remotely like it that works as well for keeping a friends list, letting me chat with them, and letting me do video chats, both on my phone and (very importantly) on a PC. Everything else fails in some way, usually the PC part. Most chat apps have some video chat function,…
> keeping a friends list This was the early genius of facebook and why the WhatsApp purchase was (in retrospect) genius. Facebook wanted to replace your phones contact list. They wanted to be the authoritative list of your friends. After having de-facebooked myself, the contact list as authoratative friends list works ok, but it is a downgrade. The video is too. I am relatively happy with signal, but yeah, not as goo…
Yeah, that doesn't work for me at all, because I don't actually have anyone's phone number, outside of a couple of family members. Who uses phones (voice calling) any more? Almost everyone I know now uses LINE.