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Why is it more likely you'll have internet access when you don't have a phone? If you happen to find a computer, what's insufficient about writing an email?
by cbracketdash 4mo ago
Why is it more likely you'll have internet access when you don't have a phone? If you happen to find a computer, what's insufficient about writing an email?
- mococa 4mo agoMy wife doesn't check email frequently, so SMS (or even better, WhatsApp) would be more reliable. Maybe an alternative is to store the WhatsApp contact information of people who could help behind a password. Then, if I need help, I can ask to borrow someone's phone on the street. If they don't have WhatsApp, I can just make a regular phone call instead.
- fn-mote 4mo ago> If they don't have WhatsApp Is this really likely? I would guess only 70 year olds don't have WhatsApp. Seems more likely you forget the impoprtant phone numbers because you never enter them manually.
- x187463 4mo agoWith iMessage, Discord, and Signal, I can't imagine a use case for me or anyone I know to use WhatsApp.
- nerdsniper 4mo agoThe vast majority of the world defaults to whatsapp. But yes, other than convention, any of these could be equivalent. I don’t see why you would care for Discord over whatsapp except that it’s what you happen to use already.
- sheept 4mo agoWhatsApp is not universally used. Line, WeChat, and KakaoTalk are more common in East Asia
- malfist 4mo agoNobody in my friend group has a WhatsApp and I'm a millennial.
- NDlurker 4mo agoIn the US, the only people I know who use WhatsApp are immigrants who use it to talk to friends and family back home.
- appreciatorBus 4mo agolol not 70, no Whatsapp.
- ianburrell 4mo agoWhy hide emergency contact info? Put it in Emergency group on everyone's phone. The goal should be to send a single message with nature of emergency, what you need from them, and what they do like call police I could see a private reference page with important info. Including checklist for various scenarios. That's what I thought you did. Then print out a copy and put in binder somewhere at home.
- SoftTalker 4mo agoHow will you log into your email from a strange computer without your phone. Gmail has required 2-factor auth for a long time.
- 306bobby 4mo agoI get your point, but believe it or not there's more email services than just Gmail
- embedding-shape 4mo ago[dead]
- prepend 4mo agoReally, because I’ve been working to move off gmail for 5 years and it’s slim pickings. I’ve tried fastmail, protonmail, outlook and they all suck. Gmail is probably the only google account I still use.
- SoftTalker 4mo agoI like fastmail but any provider worth using is going to have 2FA mandatory so that will be an issue regardless. Gmail was just a (popular) example.
- LasEspuelas 4mo agoYou have to set up those backup codes and keep them in your wallet or somewhere independent of your phone and in your person at all times.