■ 🕑 4. 
│  You may be able to get friends to install Signal... 
│  the install process is painless and it's not like they have to do 
│  anything complicated to use it (you text them, they get a notification)
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│  I managed to get my 60 something year old parents on it no problem. 
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│  Email isn't really spyware-free since most people end up using Google
│  or whatever, but at least you don't feel pressured to respond quickly. 
│  What I hate most about FB messenger (and WhatsApp, Instagram, etc): 
│   that it shows "last active" and has read receipts. 
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└─■ 🕑 5. 
    unfortunately almost all of my friends are the stubborn/complacent type when
    it comes to phones and computers, I tried to get them on something else
    in the past but with limited success (only one of them gave in)