ArniepixWho, #Facebook?
Happy birthday to who?
Happy birthday to who?
Please tell me, dear Facebook
Happy birthday to who?
SebBeing a meditation teacher comes with interesting requirements from new students. Like the requirement that I should intuitively know whether they have turned on or off notifications on their phone.
#MeditationTeacher #StudentExpectations #PhoneNotifications #Intuition #MindfulnessJourney #TeachingMeditation #ModernMeditation #StudentNeeds #TechAwareness #MindfulLiving
Rob PegoraroAUSTIN
My phone has been buzzing with new-message notifications since I woke up way too early Friday morning to fly here for SXSW. That’s the fault not of my moderately overloaded social schedule, but of how the messaging choices of SXSW friends and acquaintances have spilled over into five different apps: Meta’s WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger, the open-source Signal, and Google’s Messages and Google Voice apps.
And because I have landed in five different group chats–two in WhatsApp, two in Facebook Messenger, one in Signal–it’s a small miracle that I haven’t replied-all to the wrong message so far.
Then somebody asked in one of these chats: “Are there any Telegram channels?”
I think she was referring to the sharing options of a social-media app somebody else had just promoted, but I also know some people here are using that messaging app because the others apparently aren’t enough.
One takeaway this leaves me: There is so much to be said for e-mail, which works regardless of what service or app you use. It’s been there all along–as many people have observed, e-mail is the original social network–and everybody here should have access to it on every device they brought, not just smartphones. And yet my inbox has seen the fewest new messages today compared to any of the above platforms.
On the other hand, e-mail lacks typing indicators and emoji tapbacks–which brings up my other takeaway, the pathetic obsolescence of Google Voice as a messaging client.
Set aside that this sorry excuse for a texting app doesn’t support RCS and therefore sends and receives every message unencrypted; Google hasn’t even shipped the tapback support that it added to Messages for Android years ago. Lately, that evokes the joke I saw Saturday Night Live’s Seth Meyers throw out in a video appearance at a Comcast event last month when he reminisced about 2014-style texting: “You had to take a photo of your thumb and text that.”
Google should be embarrassed about the cobwebbed state of Google Voice. But its years-long streak of messaging-strategy incoherence suggests it long ago lost any capacity for shame in this market.
#Austin #FacebookMessenger #GoogleVoice #groupChat #iMessage #messageGroup #phoneNotifications #Signal #sxsw #Telegram #WhatsApp
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