I am soon moving out for university and am going to meet a bunch of new folks. But I was wondering how do you go about approaching this with privacy in mind?

It is a little bit whonky to ask someone you just met to download Signal, if it is a group of people then it is more acceptable, or like how do you keep in contact if they don’t use any of the messaging platforms you use such as Signal and Telegram, and if you don’t use any of the ones they use such as Whatsapp or Instagram DMs (yes zoomers in the US use these) or Snapchat? Do you just use SMS where videos are absolute shit quality and you have no privacy there either?

Let me know how you deal with this issue.

  • BraveSirZaphod
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    211 months ago

    OP’s responsible approach to privacy is not something that needs questioning.

    That’s fine, but it doesn’t change the fact that it is objectively not normal.

    You can believe that it should be normal, but that’s a very different claim.

    • @[email protected]
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      111 months ago

      Yes, I don’t think we’re in disagreement here. I was just trying to tie it all to the beginning of the discussion.