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On Wed, 11 Sep 2024 18:49:51 +0200, Jörg Lorenz wrote:

> Aren't you important enough for them? Or they not important enough for
> you to use WA?

Wat de boer niet kent, dat eet hij niet.

(What the uneducated person doesn't know, he won't eat.)

They're just afraid of the unknown... and lazy. My mother is alsmost 74.
She's got an iPhone with WA /and/ Signal.
 
> As a consequence they use 2 messengers.
> 
> What a pile of contradictions!

True. But SMS is something they know, it comes with their phone.

> BTW: I dropped WA years ago as well. I told everybody important to me
> and gave them the channels to reach me. In total I operate 5 messengers.
> It is so easy. No one should ever have an excuse not to be able to reach me.

Adding Signal next to WA isn't difficult at all. I send them the URL,
but still they won't install it.

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s|b