Comment by cbracketdash
1 hour ago
Why is it more likely you'll have internet access when you don't have a phone? If you happen to find a computer, what's insufficient about writing an email?
1 hour ago
Why is it more likely you'll have internet access when you don't have a phone? If you happen to find a computer, what's insufficient about writing an email?
How will you log into your email from a strange computer without your phone. Gmail has required 2-factor auth for a long time.
I get your point, but believe it or not there's more email services than just Gmail
My wife doesn't check email frequently, so SMS (or even better, WhatsApp) would be more reliable.
Maybe an alternative is to store the WhatsApp contact information of people who could help behind a password.
Then, if I need help, I can ask to borrow someone's phone on the street. If they don't have WhatsApp, I can just make a regular phone call instead.
> If they don't have WhatsApp
Is this really likely? I would guess only 70 year olds don't have WhatsApp.
Seems more likely you forget the impoprtant phone numbers because you never enter them manually.
Nobody in my friend group has a WhatsApp and I'm a millennial.
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WhatsApp is not universally used. Line, WeChat, and KakaoTalk are more common in East Asia
In the US, the only people I know who use WhatsApp are immigrants who use it to talk to friends and family back home.
With iMessage, Discord, and Signal, I can't imagine a use case for me or anyone I know to use WhatsApp.
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