FYI, if you have privacy-oriented friends, you could use Silence (https://silence.im/ https://silence.im/) for SMS communications. Once keys have been exchange

FYI, if you have privacy-oriented friends, you could use Silence (https://silence.im/ https://silence.im/) for SMS communications. Once keys have been exchanged, it switches to AES encryption with your peers, so carriers will only log a blob of encrypted text.