The contrary happens to me. When I say I don't have facebook they immediately asks what about your "instaaaaaa" which I also do not have. The usual curious expressions follows but many times it is replaced by admiration. Many people I interact with say exactly what you just said, I wish I could be like you, but family.... to what I always reply well, my family knows my number 😂 Exceptions exist. This lady that works on my shooting range needed to contact me for some documentation. When I said I din't have WhatsApp she got angry saying how do you expect to be contacted. I always answer the same: when I need to contact someone, I find my ways. If someone is interested in contacting me, either they will find a way or it is not of my interest, hence, not my problem. That one got very mad.

Well, the thing about the number is that I only give that out to friends and family that I know won't bug me all the time 🤷‍♂️😂 But also, in a way, I would say that using Messenger is definitely a *little* bit more secure than using SMS, considering the fact that SMS is completely unencrypted, whereas Messenger does encrypt in transit and is now partially end-to-end encrypted. It's not ideal either way, but unlike a criminal tapping a cell tower, Meta can only do so much with my data in a legal way. So yeah, at the end of the day, if I can get a person using Signal instead of Meta's chat apps, that's great, but I will still take WhatsApp or Messenger over SMS.