Irony:
Linked to this by the FAWatch Bot on Telegram

Honestly, this whole social media stuff is over rated. All I need is a phone with working text messaging and I'm golden lol =P

Likewise

Also, Cake By The Ocean was playing when I saw your avatar bouncing back and forth like that. It was in rhythm with the music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGw8DWctAts <.<

Omg this is beautiful! XD

LOL!
Half the time I just go into setting and turn off desktop notifications / sounds so I don't have to see / hear the damn popups. I just wish it would actually SAVE that preference so I wouldn't have to re-do it every time I logged in.

I can't fathom why that thing is so popular. It's horrendous

To be honest, I almost prefer Telegram over Skype. It's lighter on my computer and less of a black hole on performance than Skype is.

My PC is overpowered. I don't even notice so to my Skype's ease of use and reliability beats out everything else.

LOL I wish I had an OP computer like yours then! I just have a minor hate-relationship with most things Microsoft-made.
Also, I am not worthy of your watch...NOT WORTHY I SAY!

Nonsense. I watch those with greatness within them, so nyah!

NO! STOP WATCHING ME!
I AM THE NIGHT!
I AM NOT WORTHY!

Oooo! How OP?
Sanely and usefully OP or ridonkulously OP?

Discord > Telegram > Skype

In my experience.

Never used or even heard of Discord.
Telegram > Yahoo IM > MSNM > Skype (with all the ones I've used lol)

Discord is a lightweight messenger service that's much easier to use than Telegram and tons lighter than Skype. A lot of people are switching to it.

Pro advertising haha, but seriously, I'll look into it.
I like Telegram because I can send reactive gifs and stickers to those who are just bothering me XD

...Shit I actually did sound like a Discord shill. :v

I just switched about a few months ago, and now I see everyone else switching to it. A lot of people use skype but a lot of people I know are switching to Discord because Skype is being an over-loading piece of shite.

I do the same on Discord. You can upload images and gifs and whatnot.

And don't forget it's for gamers too

To be fair, the mobile version is vastly superior to the desktop version. Windows telegram blows pretty bad.

Well orgibally, your info wasnt freely available.

I couldn't understand your comment

Sorry phone typing real fast.
I meant. Originally your info wasnt freely available to anyone who had your phone number, but since that's a public listing from some companies, and the change that you can be contacted by anyone that has your phone number, bots can find you

And if groups are so big you get shunted off screen that fast, you really shouldnt join them

At least it's open source. Telegram is a million times better than Skype at least.

I was voicing my frustrations about this to a friend of mine the other day; not just about Telegram either.

At first it was MSN, or AIM, or whatever else. Then as cell phones grew popular we've got so many apps; WhatsApp, Kik, Telegram, but I was happy to stick around on Skype.

Now I'm mandated to have like a million different apps and IM clients to keep up with friends who keep jumping on the new hottest bandwagon.

Oiy, I know your pain. I feel like an old man cause I don't want to change with the times :P

Aye. I have friends who are like 'Oh well you can find me on Telegram, you should message me there' and it's essentially them saying they're happy to abandon our friendship unless I follow them to the newest shiniest platform because they're never gonna use Skype again of something.

.... The title made me cringe so fucking bad I taste sour in my mouth... Also you are a big name, furfags will flock to big names...


Sidenote: Drayk has fur now apparently, got anything in your sleeve that will make him go: kill all mammals

Also do you really have mustasche like dat?

It's supposed to be a beard :P

but but it goes under your nose >.< *grumble* yes I am envious because I can't grow a proper beard

my mang

Doesn't work on Windows 10 D:

Discord works fine on win10 (seeing as I run win10 myself and it's running perfectly fine!)

! It was complaining that it didn't want to even install! I'll see if I can beat it into submission tomorrow then!

I'll just have to get my beat stick and smite Discord into submission because I miss that messenger

One convenient thing, at least using it on a phone, is that it gives you a big "Block" button when someone sends you a first message, so it's easy to ignore people. I'm not so lucky as to be remotely popular, though.

I got a "wrong text" today where someone added me to a group of 10 people and talked about a meeting and what they're bringing. SO ANNOYING getting pings from my phone constantly from strangers. Then I figured out how to put it in "do not disturb" =n=

I honestly have no damn clue what problem you're trying to convey here. Maybe it's a difference in platform?

I'll copy and paste what  startide commented first.

"Telegram has this annoying "feature" in that when you first sign up with your phone number, it then broadcasts to literally everyone who both has your phone number in their phone's contacts, and also have telegram, and messages them that you just joined "

When I first started it the damn thing did this and I was being messaged by a dozen or so people. Unfortunately I wasn't providing NAMES to these people, and no contacts list information so that I couldn't message anyone back after someone else messaged. I kept trying to tell everyone this and ask for some help but because of some of them ignoring what I was saying I kept losing those that were trying to provide assistance.

This was because of a large number of people being too damn dense to actually read what I was saying. So they kept messaging me like I wasn't having a problem even though I had just told them I was. I have zero patience for stupidity and it was immediately apparent that telegram was providing me with a massive dose of it. Hence why I've removed it from my computer.

May it rot in digital hell for the shit it pulled on me.

Ah, I see. I didn't run into a single person who met both of those criteria, so I never really understood the issue with it that way.

I still don't bother with phone numbers regardless, the username function on it works far better IMO.

Am I the only one who can't read it because the text is kind of small? ;3;

Try it now. Should be considerably larger

Thank you!

And yeah, yeesh, it sounds horrible.

Telegram has this annoying "feature" in that when you first sign up with your phone number, it then broadcasts to literally everyone who both has your phone number in their phone's contacts, and also have telegram, and messages them that you just joined

yeah.. and that made me totally flip out when I finally gave in to my friends nagging me to try out Telegram.
There are quite a few people around that have my phone number (telemarketers, exes, (former) coworkers etc) that I did absolutely NOT want to know that I've moved on to a new messenger.. so thanks for ruining that for me, Telegram.
It still doesn't support basic chat features like "/me" that have been around since old IRC times, but at least you can spam channels with stickers and gifs to waste people's mobile data budget.

I find it much better than Skype for one on one chats though on my phone, since skype was sluggish and drained my battery like crazy. I don't mind the sticker spam since I often join in though. Have like several thousand stickers, mostly naughty XD Depends on the group though.

As for data usage, you should really avoid large groups if you don't have unlimited data. Telegram is extremely data-hungry

i had a similar feeling to a lot the new social programs, still do