WhatsPam?

[VectraMan]

It's a friendly alternative to SMS, which is useful if you have international contacts as messages are free. It works over wifi so is not dependant on mobile signals.

You mean like E-mail?

I get thousands of free SMSs every month and as I've only ever sent about 4 of them in my lifetime the cost is not really an issue.

[Platypus]

I get thousands of free SMSs every month and as I've only ever sent about 4 of them in my lifetime the cost is not really an issue.

Yeah but no but. Whatsapp is free internationally too, texts aren't.

[Forgotmylogin]

You mean like E-mail?

I get thousands of free SMSs every month and as I've only ever sent about 4 of them in my lifetime the cost is not really an issue.

Yes and no. WhatsApp notifies me like a text message. My business email notifies me, my personal email does not (and I don't want it to). Again, the "free SMS" thing doesn't really apply when you're abroad / have no mobile signal but do have Wifi (like on the tube), etc.

In any case, it's a choice, not a competition over whether you're right or wrong to use it.

[Chuck]

You mean like E-mail?

Yes, I suppose, but slicker, and better suited to hand-held devices.

I get thousands of free SMSs every month and as I've only ever sent about 4 of them in my lifetime the cost is not really an issue.

Then it's probably not for you. Other's find it useful.

Just part of life's rich tapestry.

[VectraMan]

Yeah but no but. Whatsapp is free internationally too, texts aren't.

If you have a free data connection. Surely you're more likely to run up your bill accidentally using a 3G data internationally than you would by sending a text.

Whatever floats your boat. It does seem like somebody has made money by taking something that everybody already had and giving it a fancy name and pretending it's new. Wish I'd thought of it.

[Chuck]

I'd heard about it but held off even looking at it for ages as I'd assumed it was just the latest kiddy or Fan Boy favourite.

I now use it almost exclusively in place of SMS. It has delivery and message read confirmations, which I find useful. Delivery is, in my experience, quicker than SMS. I have a couple of group conversations running, again I find that useful.

It's nothing really special, it just adds to what SMS does, but does it really well.

[original PM]

hangouts pulls everything together

assuming some has a google + account but if not is just sends via SMS

works quite well really....

but with the exception of overseas messages who does not have a contract with unlimited txt's