Not a Brit, but still recommend following these. My only problem is involving Signal, as hard as I try I cant get my family to switch from exclusively SMS. Any tips?
It can be difficult. I went cold turkey and if people wanted to contact me they either had to SMS me, email me, or install Signal. Most went with the latter over time apart from some older family members that still use SMS. I’m never going to persuade them to change that behaviour and that’s OK. Overall it wasnt too tricky it just took a bit of time.
I actually ran into more problems with a former employer demanding that I install WhatsApp on my personal phone. That got really messy and stressful.
Not a Brit, but still recommend following these. My only problem is involving Signal, as hard as I try I cant get my family to switch from exclusively SMS. Any tips?
It can be difficult. I went cold turkey and if people wanted to contact me they either had to SMS me, email me, or install Signal. Most went with the latter over time apart from some older family members that still use SMS. I’m never going to persuade them to change that behaviour and that’s OK. Overall it wasnt too tricky it just took a bit of time.
I actually ran into more problems with a former employer demanding that I install WhatsApp on my personal phone. That got really messy and stressful.
I had the same problem, then one day a scary privacy news article hit one of their radar, and they all switched overnight.
Red flag go no contact
Jk but telling them you won’t discuss anything important over sms was how I got mine to switch
Then all they would say is “Welp, guess we’re not texting then” . this goes for basically everyone I know except tech-geek friends.
“k cya”