It used to be way easier back when it was also a texting app. That was my “in” to recommending it to people. It’s a much harder sell to get them to use it because I’m on it, especially now that Google Messenger is baked into every Android phone and also provides a sort of desktop experience.
For the sake of argument, let’s say Signal is already perfect… Now the trouble is that people aren’t using it.
Exactly. And I gave up trying even when it was “easier”. Not to mention, since it can’t do SMS anymore, I actually helped my mom. stop using it, because then she’d need 2 different messaging apps. She and I now use Google Messages to text and whatever Google is calling the integrated video chat app now.
Yeah, a new messaging app is definitely a hard sell for me if it’s data/wifi only. I have Discord for unimportant internet conversations that can wait for me to burn data and texting for important things like work because I get unlimited texts. Having a separate app for a couple of people would be annoying.
I’ve been using Signal since like 2016 and have not seen any appreciable adoption rate whatsoever within my social network.
I used to actively try to get people to use it but I got enough ambivalent or negative responses that I just stopped asking.
It used to be way easier back when it was also a texting app. That was my “in” to recommending it to people. It’s a much harder sell to get them to use it because I’m on it, especially now that Google Messenger is baked into every Android phone and also provides a sort of desktop experience.
For the sake of argument, let’s say Signal is already perfect… Now the trouble is that people aren’t using it.
Exactly. And I gave up trying even when it was “easier”. Not to mention, since it can’t do SMS anymore, I actually helped my mom. stop using it, because then she’d need 2 different messaging apps. She and I now use Google Messages to text and whatever Google is calling the integrated video chat app now.
Yeah, a new messaging app is definitely a hard sell for me if it’s data/wifi only. I have Discord for unimportant internet conversations that can wait for me to burn data and texting for important things like work because I get unlimited texts. Having a separate app for a couple of people would be annoying.