[Theory] do people actually use messaging apps besides whatsapp and sms?

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I only use telegram. First got it many years ago in college cos other students were using it

For years i used both telegram and whatsapp, but recently deleted whatsapp

Other than that i don't use anything

Hardly anybody uses imessage in germany from what i know

seriously?
so people u meet -- u get their telegram? and not whatsapp?
damn thats very uncommon here

people here only use whatsapp. like 99.999% of the time for texting.
telegram here is used for piracy here, i dont know how it works but people tell me they watched xyz movie on telegram or got the pdf of abc book on telegram

My whole family has telegram. Other than that i hardly ever meet new people, but most have a telegram even if they don't use it much

It got a really bad rep the last three years, because it doesn't censor content as much as other platforms. So a lot of "conspiracy theory" groups showed up on it and people make fun of people who are using telegram

Before that it was known as a more secure alternative for whatsapp. That's why people in my university started using it

I also like the app a lot more. It's better designed than whatsapp imo + you can run the same account on multiple devices, which whatsapp still can't