Merry xmas ladies. Hope u get what u want and that you have a real nice time with the ones you wish to spend time with. And I wish this for every last one of you guys.
Even that douche russell.
Why does Whatsapp exist, exactly? It just mirrored my contacts and lets me send them short messages - isn't it what SMS is for?
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Dec-29-2013 01:20
Sushipunk
Flickering, I roam
Registered: Sep 2006
Location: Chateau Verdafloor
quote:
Originally posted by Lira
Why does Whatsapp exist, exactly? It just mirrored my contacts and lets me send them short messages - isn't it what SMS is for?
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.
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Dec-29-2013 01:29
citric_acid
Supreme tranceaddict
Registered: May 2004
Location: Montana
Just bought my plane ticket and got my visa for going to Australia in Feb for 12 days
even though i asked work 4x if my vacation for next year starts on my hire date or the 1st of the year and all 4 times they said 1st of the year, i got told today (after i booked my flight) that now i dont get it until my hire date which is 2 weeks after my vacation they are trying to find any reason to keep me from going.
Dec-29-2013 01:45
Lira
Ancient BassAddict
Registered: Nov 2001
Location: Brasília, Brazil
quote:
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.
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?
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Dec-29-2013 01:46
Sushipunk
Flickering, I roam
Registered: Sep 2006
Location: Chateau Verdafloor
quote:
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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Dec-29-2013 02:58
Lira
Ancient BassAddict
Registered: Nov 2001
Location: Brasília, Brazil
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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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Dec-29-2013 03:50
Frenkieee
mighty real
Registered: Sep 2005
Location: Breda, the Netherlands
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.
they are trying to find any reason to keep me from going.
