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we need a couple updates:

"if you receive a phone call and the number is not in your contacts, do not pick up. listen to their voice mail, or make your voice mail message 'please send me a text' and wait for a text"

"if you receive a text message / email from anyone and it has a link in it, don't click it"

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Meanwhile the nurse at my nieces+nephews school gets labelled as “likely spam”… probably because nobody answers

the administration at school asked us to join a whatsapp room for those kinds of comms, and they DM from that for anything specific

it's a cute solution, made me think of my school back-in-the-day having a basic php-type forum for snow days / announcements etc, always wanted to add DMs and notifications to that...

I'm curious what locale you're in and how popular WhatsApp is there. I feel some sort of way about having to make a WhatsApp account for this sort of communication, over, say, a phone call, text message, or email

i'm in NYC, but yea that was when i set up a Whatsapp account. i've heard of it before but all my friends are either on SMS/group chats or insta

i think their main use was automating reminders and alerts, since they probably couldnt find a way to blast SMSs to people without it being flagged eventually as spam

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