I was just thinking about this the other day, and I realised that I use so many different messaging apps. It all depends on the person who I need to speak to, which made me realise how fragmented the whole thing is!
Tend to use Slack (even to my wife), Twitter DMs and then Signal (SMS alternative app). Sometimes I do just VPN into home and get our Google Home to speak out messages though
At least in the ‘good old days’ you could just use one app such as Pidgin to collate AOL IM, MSN, ICQ and Yahoo Messenger - nowadays, everything has got to be totally separate
iMessage and WhatsApp. Used to be FB messenger, but that unencrypted data-train… (Yes, WA still under the same umbrella, but at least message contents are hidden.)
Whatsapp for 90% of personal communication
iMessage/Text for brother and a few others who aren’t on the whatsapp game
Combination of Slack/Microsoft Teams for work
Facebook messenger solely for my mother, because she’s unable to operate a mobile phone properly (She leaves it turned off unless she needs to use it…)
I’m also an iMessage default. I tried to get away from whatsapp because of the amount of groups that end up being created, but that seemed almost impossible.
Had to turn notifications for it off though. I find it so disruptive, not sure why.