where a person will have page after page of junk apps on their phones, yet utterly balks at the notion of installing a second messenger.

Ffs this drives me crazy.

I have a friend who bitches about SMS being shit, every.single.day.

But will they use another app? No. "I don't want to have to use different messaging apps". Oh, so what you're saying is you're OK with how shitty SMS is. So stop complaining.

Really, it's not like you don't already have 3 email accounts, and have had a few phone numbers. And your friends numbers have changed over the years too.

This is something you use all day, every day. Not hard to find a conversation - hell, both iOS and Android show you this on a per contact basis.

So I'm not sure what's really going on when people say this. There's some other weird mental thing happening.