Best/recommended app for messaging?
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We use telegram. You will find a lot of providers or agencies such as us will not accept messages from fake numbers like those provided by text now etc.
Telegram with restrictive privacy settings won't let you see the person's phone number, is what i understand. But i guess you don't necessarily need to see the number to know its verified, correct me if i am wrong?
Either way that gives the customer a certain level of privacy i suppose.
Telegram won't allow fake numbers and will block you if you try to make multiple accounts which makes it work for us... we need a reliable way to blacklist people. We cannot see your number... we use a bot account, which basically means an API, but one thing with that is we cannot instigate a conversation even if we wanted to.. you have to do that... bot accounts can't access your number regardless of privacy settings but on personal accounts you can choose to share your number or not. Anyway slight differences depending on what type of account you are messaging (ie does the username end in bot or not).
Unless you are paying for something genuinely premium, they are all basically the same. Even then, you may be blocked as VOIP numbers have this problem in this age when few have a plain old home phone service (POTS).
A number of companies own most of the free and paid text apps. WhatsApp, WeChat, Telegram, Signal, etc. have different branding but similar tradeoffs. It's mostly for convenience and sense of security whether real or not. A lot of people using their everyday number are far more trusting (and foolish) than they should be.Most people do not worry about privacy or identity theft issues until something goes wrong for them personally.
Providers are entitled to set their own rules, and clients are just as entitled to decide whether those rules work for them. If a provider insists on a particular messaging app or no texting apps, and you are not comfortable with it, the simplest option is to move on. Don't whine about it.
The same applies if you're asked for government ID or a deposit to meet the lady. That is a personal boundary some are fine crossing it, others are not. Similarly, some like to use their actual full names and pics in social media and dick heads chastise them if they don't.
Provider safety gets brought up a lot in discussions, but there never is a silver bullet. Someone with bad intentions (I always wonder what set them off in the first place) will use a prepaid mobile phone with a prepaid payment card and rotate mobile numbers regardless if an app is involved. It's not rocket science.
I feel ID verification discussion tends to become emotional and unproductive. People have very different comfort levels, and that is unlikely to ever change. All it leads to is online arguments and beratement. Providers may have ulterior motives or agendas for insisting no texting apps, deposits, or government ID. Horny bastards are too gullible to understand this concept. Hence all the guys who get scammed from the ladies on LL.
At the end of the day, it comes down to knowing your own limits and respecting theirs. If something does not sit right with you, simply walk away without turning it into a bigger issue.
A number of companies own most of the free and paid text apps. WhatsApp, WeChat, Telegram, Signal, etc. have different branding but similar tradeoffs. It's mostly for convenience and sense of security whether real or not. A lot of people using their everyday number are far more trusting (and foolish) than they should be.Most people do not worry about privacy or identity theft issues until something goes wrong for them personally.
Providers are entitled to set their own rules, and clients are just as entitled to decide whether those rules work for them. If a provider insists on a particular messaging app or no texting apps, and you are not comfortable with it, the simplest option is to move on. Don't whine about it.
The same applies if you're asked for government ID or a deposit to meet the lady. That is a personal boundary some are fine crossing it, others are not. Similarly, some like to use their actual full names and pics in social media and dick heads chastise them if they don't.
Provider safety gets brought up a lot in discussions, but there never is a silver bullet. Someone with bad intentions (I always wonder what set them off in the first place) will use a prepaid mobile phone with a prepaid payment card and rotate mobile numbers regardless if an app is involved. It's not rocket science.
I feel ID verification discussion tends to become emotional and unproductive. People have very different comfort levels, and that is unlikely to ever change. All it leads to is online arguments and beratement. Providers may have ulterior motives or agendas for insisting no texting apps, deposits, or government ID. Horny bastards are too gullible to understand this concept. Hence all the guys who get scammed from the ladies on LL.
At the end of the day, it comes down to knowing your own limits and respecting theirs. If something does not sit right with you, simply walk away without turning it into a bigger issue.
I also need to maintain privacy myself so I’ll use Text Now. Then you can delete the app as necessary so it’s not on your phone.
For providers that don’t accept those types of apps that don’t use your real number I’ll kindly ask them through Text Now first or see if their number appears as a contact on WhatsApp if they are ok with Telegram or WhatsApp. Those apps don’t leave any sort of record on your cell phone call/text history on your billing statement when calling and/or texting on your app.
Every call/text goes on the the history log and can be seen on your monthly statements.
All it would take to get “busted” by a suspicious SO would be to see those calls and texts on the statement log and google searching those numbers and having the Leolist or other ad appear. Then it would be “Lucy!!! You have some esplainin to do!!”
I used WeChat in the past but now it’s a bit weird asking you to be verified through a “friend” or something because I haven’t used it in a long time.
WhatsApp messages are simply deleted without leaving any sort of record. Just be sure to make it clear to any provider not to randomly message you on WhatsApp and/or stop communication after a certain time of day. I have many friends that use WhatsApp so that app stays on my phone at all times. Other texting apps will get deleted off my phone and re-installed as necessary.
For providers that don’t accept those types of apps that don’t use your real number I’ll kindly ask them through Text Now first or see if their number appears as a contact on WhatsApp if they are ok with Telegram or WhatsApp. Those apps don’t leave any sort of record on your cell phone call/text history on your billing statement when calling and/or texting on your app.
Every call/text goes on the the history log and can be seen on your monthly statements.
All it would take to get “busted” by a suspicious SO would be to see those calls and texts on the statement log and google searching those numbers and having the Leolist or other ad appear. Then it would be “Lucy!!! You have some esplainin to do!!”
I used WeChat in the past but now it’s a bit weird asking you to be verified through a “friend” or something because I haven’t used it in a long time.
WhatsApp messages are simply deleted without leaving any sort of record. Just be sure to make it clear to any provider not to randomly message you on WhatsApp and/or stop communication after a certain time of day. I have many friends that use WhatsApp so that app stays on my phone at all times. Other texting apps will get deleted off my phone and re-installed as necessary.
