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Originally posted by Lira That's what people told me at first, and I thought it would be an SMS-thingy for people overseas... but then it automatically added every-bloody-one on my contacts list and I'm afraid of being dragged into a world of spam and mass chain messages by the hippie side of my family. As much as I love them, I'm tired of reminding them prawns and vitamin C are not a lethal mix, and the magnetic north won't blow the planet up during the next magnetic shift. Do I have to block every single person on Whatsapp until I'm left with a group I'm comfortable with?

That's weird, as far as I know the only people on my Whatsapp are the ones I've added myself. It never added all my contacts automatically. That would piss me off too, lol.

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Originally posted by Sushipunk That's weird, as far as I know the only people on my Whatsapp are the ones I've added myself. It never added all my contacts automatically. That would piss me off too, lol.

My sister contacted me within minutes, and I even had a list of "favourites". I tried to find out where I could manage my contacts and it seems I could either block the ones I already had or add new ones. And that's about it.

Apparently I don't even need to have these people in my contacts - I someone's got my phone number, that's enough to grant them a place among my Whatsapp contacts. I'm no privacy freak, and I surely don't give people my number at random, but it's still quite unsettling, really.

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WhatsApp is immensely popular here in the Netherlands. It's way more popular than SMS because it's free, that is if you are on a data bundle (which almost everyone is).

Everyone who's already in your phone's contacts and who has WhatsApp installed will automatically appear in your WhatsApp contacts. Thus, you can instantly see who has WhatsApp installed and who hasn't. If you ever remove a person from your contacts, the WhatsApp history with that person will remain visible. But like you said, you can always block someone.

You can very easily send photos and videos which you can't using SMS. Also, I'm in several groups. My family, my football team, various groups of friends. Last week we were planning a weekend with a group of friends. We made a new group chat specifically for that weekend and everything related to the weekend got posted there.. so you don't have to spam other group chats where most of those friends are in.. but also other people who wouldn't want to receive all those messages.

And if you're fed up with a group, you can always leave it or just silence it for a certain period.

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Originally posted by Sushipunk While I get free unlimited SMS within Australia, if I want to text any of my friends overseas, it costs me 50c per message, so Whatsapp is way better because there are no charges. Other than that, I guess it's not really that different to SMS.

There might also be places where you can access internet but not mobile reception.

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Originally posted by Lira netic north won't blow the planet up during the next magnetic shift. Do I have to block every single person on Whatsapp until I'm left with a group I'm comfortable with?

Yes. I have a very strict no IMming me unless you're out of the country policy. I made it fairly obvious that if you send a whatsapp message instead of a text i will start believing in god, just so that i could swear to said god that the next time we meet i will stick a rusty fork into your eye.

People get the message.

I only tolerate using whatsapp with one person, who just happens to reside out of the country, everyone else, it's their eye to lose.




On a slightly less sociopathic note, I realise that waitresses being flirty with customers is a good business decision since it helps them to get tips even in non tipping , but isn't literally (and yes, I actually mean literally not figuratively) pressing their boobs that were barely contained by their shirt against ones face at a cafe that is nowhere near crowded enough to make that necessary going well beyond the call of duty?

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http://www.sfgate.com/default/artic...ber-5097201.php

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(12-27) 17:31 PST SAN FRANCISCO -- A teenage boy who was shot dead in San Francisco this month was slain not by an enemy but by an accomplice in a street robbery, after a bullet fired at the victim ricocheted off his face, police said Friday.

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I had to read the article to understand what happened.

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The victim (of the robbery) did not resist and complied with all demands, police said, but the gunman still opened fire. The bullet, though, glanced off the victim's face

indeed.

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Originally posted by Moongoose Yes. I have a very strict no IMming me unless you're out of the country policy. I made it fairly obvious that if you send a whatsapp message instead of a text i will start believing in god, just so that i could swear to said god that the next time we meet i will stick a rusty fork into your eye.

That's what I'd do, minus the fork-twisting bit. I went as far as using a spare number I had just for Whatsapp, but it automatically imported all contacts from my phone.

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Originally posted by Moongoose On a slightly less sociopathic note, I realise that waitresses being flirty with customers is a good business decision since it helps them to get tips even in non tipping , but isn't literally (and yes, I actually mean literally not figuratively) pressing their boobs that were barely contained by their shirt against ones face at a cafe that is nowhere near crowded enough to make that necessary going well beyond the call of duty?

That's a way to keep your costumers abreast of your services

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But the subsequent collision of fools...
Well versed in the subtle art of slavery.

http://www.bendigoadvertiser.com.au...turn-out/?cs=80

Seems like the local hicks are mad as hell about our sick party.

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Originally posted by Psyshell http://www.bendigoadvertiser.com.au...turn-out/?cs=80 Seems like the local hicks are mad as hell about our sick party.

LOL! Were you at the party?

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