TELEGRAM - Zuckerberg plans to Integrate WhatsApp-Instagram-Facebook Mes.

[BravoV]

three random reasons to use it:

... <snip> ...

I only need one , business, especially for entrepreneur.

You don't just arrogantly reject chatting "your" business people, especially high value client/customer, and keep pushing these people around to move to other chat platform you preffered alone is bad for business.

Chances is quite high for an employee though.

[Zucca]

Like with friends, also customer with brains are rare animals.

[GlennSprigg]

I'm off on a slight tangent here... (but it's what I do...  )
Being in my mid-60's, it got me remembering the REAL 'Telegrams' of Olde !!
And how the vast majority of say 18 to 40 year-olds would never have seen one.

That pisses me off (  ) only because one of my favorite old jokes is lost on them !!...

A dog walks into the Post-Office, and asks to send a Telegram.
After he fills in the form, and hands it back to the teller, the teller reads it...
    "Woof, woof woof, woof woof woof, woof, woof-woof".
The teller said to the dog, "You know, for the same price, for the allocated squares
you are allowed, we can put in one more 'Woof' for the same price !...
The dog said... "Don't be stupid!, that wouldn't make any sense !!" 

[bingo600]

I prefer Signal , and Telegram if signal isn't available.
Not even 10 wild horses could get me to install any FB owned programs.

My new PinePhone (UB Edition) only has Telegram ATM , that's ok for now.

/Bingo

[cdev]

Of course I remember using screen with slip. And also TIA "The Internet Adapter" over PPP. And Usenet.
This was back when most people had never heard of the Internet.
I remember seeing Mosaic for the first time at the Exploratorium in SF and just having such a strong feeling it was going to be the next big thing. Hypertext with graphics!  and blinking text.
Remember that? And then they added frames so people could not just scroll away from the ADS.. (ugh) And then it started to go downhill with the ads.

Yes and no. The first thing I ever used IRC on which could be called portable was someone else's tadpole sparcbook 3. That was about 1995 and it was dialled up into uunet (via SLIP - anyone else remember that?). After that the first truly mobile IRC device experience for me was a Palm Treo 180g in 2002.  So not portable as we have now for sure which is why SMS overtook it pretty sharply in the late 1990s. Alas I dragged a laptop around most of the time in the late 90s with FreeBSD and ircii on it and dialled up though.

Treo 180g - felt like I was in star trek. Bet I looked like a right dick

[bd139]

I remember seeing the first ad and thinking “well that’s shit”