BBM on iOS and Android

3dnan wrote:

1. Your pin is unique, you might change phones, travel different cities, but the pin is yours, it is not bound to your phone number.
2. You can share your pin with people without giving personal information like email or phone number.
3. Random people can't message you and bother you until you approve them in your list.

Well, this is what I read about it and I find it better than the casual stuff

Yes, That's true. But:

1- You can do that for other messengers also. For example, I've been travelling through countries in the past period and have been whatsapping from my saudi number. Staying in touch with my mates went like a breeze.

In case you change your phone set, you can carry on with your account.

2- I feel BBM pin is robot-like. Who likes to have pins today like ABC123 that is useable on one single app while we use plenty of apps and dozens of password on our smartphones today?

If having a constant ID that necessary while not disclosing the personal information, we can exchange email addresses. C'mon, most of us have multiple email addresses today; right? And service providers like Google and Yahoo do provide text services over email addresses. You get the same notifications for msgs, you can stay online, you can reply immediately.

3- Spamming is not easy on messengers now. I haven't received any spam yet. The day I get some, I do have blocking features in there.

And there are so many other great things about the evolution of the technology.

1- People have really cut down spending on SMS services. it's free on phone-number-linked services; for example, iMessage is something I use a lot.

2- The landscape of socialisation, standards and people's preferences thereof have changed dramatically in the recent period. See how Candy Crush is making the difference. People are befriending strangers, growing their social circles unlike being wary like they used to be (in general) a few years back.
A good read is here on CNET: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-576008 … ?ttag=fbwp
This is direction the world is going now. Exchanging pins for one-to-one connection has started looking ridiculous.

3- Oh I forgot to list other monsters of mobile messaging now: Skype, LinkedIn, Facebook etc
Of course, there are reasons why Microsoft decided to stop MSN messenger and purchased Skype.
And you don't have to link your phone numbers

My main point: Yes BBM is cool; but the world has changed...yet another time.