Do Americans really use SMS still?

Do Americans really use SMS still?

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yes they do

no reason not to. Apparently messengers were mass adopted in europe because they still had/have limits on texting rates or whatever, whereas that hasn't been a thing in burgerland since like 2002.

Also there's no point trying to bother with a messenger app over here because of simple network effects. Doesn't matter if I use a messenger because it only works if whoever I talk to also uses not just a messenger, but also the same exact one (because fuck interoperability, apparently). Bottom line is that it's a waste of time because 99% of everything you do will go over SMS anyway. Only exception is iToddler shit, and that's simply because iMessage is the default

it just werks

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No idea, but Australians sure do. And until my contacts install Signal it's probably going to stay that way.

Eurofag here, I still use SMS to communicate with family, it just werks.

French also use SMS before any messenger. Prices are low, and text messages unlimited

still used SMS until recently.
now i have a personal whatsapp for family and a work whatsapp.
also have facebook messenger lite for school friends

>Apparently messengers were mass adopted in europe because they still had/have limits on texting rates or whatever, whereas that hasn't been a thing in burgerland since like 2002.
SMS is unlimited and free here but nobody uses it anyway, since phones also have unlimited mobile data since always. No need to gimp yourself down to just SMS when you can use a fully featured protocol via internet connection. I rather use something that gives my chats to my phone and desktop at the same time, without having to buy the whole Apple product family and vendorlock myself to that.

You have unlimited mobile data? Fuuck. 4GiB/month plan here, was 1GiB until last year.