Well, apparently, we are definitely behind the times!

Yes WhatsApp is great

I give up - I'm stuck on hand written letters. Don't trust email for important things.

Oh glory - more technology to get used to!!! Just when I'd got to grips with FB and Twitter - and my phone.

Get over it and do what you wish, it's all money at the end of the day. if that's all you have to moan about count yourself lucky!!!

My email accounts are only for things like Amazon, Goodreads, and the endless stuff from all the companies I have ever ordered from or done business with.

For family and friends it's WhatsApp and FB Messenger. With the exception of a group of friends I meet up with monthly - the person who 'runs' this isn't into social media of any kind, so she emails us all with details of the next meet up. I have to remember to look out for the emails, and I have been known to miss the day because I forget to check!

As someone who forms part of the 5% of the population in the UK with no reliable mobile signal I am infuriated to think that communicating via email for my business transactions may shortly no longer be a choice.

Disadvantaged or what??

Tweedle24 is right - email is not as safe as WhatsApp which is encrypted.

Gabrielle it’s so wrong to think Facebook is open to all the world and his wife you make it as private as you want you choose who can see your posts if you only have ten friends and you only want them to see your business you make it such and no one outside those them will see what you post
If you use messenger the message goes only to the person you are messaging so it’s as private as you want it to be

Email or text suits me so why mend that not broken or am I missing out on another and possibly awesome ?means of communication ?

I don't 'do' Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat or any media other than WhatsApp, and that only occasionally. My AC send texts/email and so do the GC.
If I wanted the world and it's wife to know every aspect of my life, I'd make a short film or write a book.

Whatsapp is brilliant! It's like instant email and definitely worth signing up for

I'm with NK & KK on this. Email only and I certainly wouldn't put my bank details thereon. I've just closed my fb account and have been told this will take two weeks to become effective. That's interestingly depressing in itself methinks. Received a nasty and threatening mail recently which pretty well has me resorting to post-its which is currently being recommended on the media in light of the current Russian intrusion.

In our household email is used more than anything for communication with friends and family. I do realise that every time that I use email, Google is gathering more information on me! Thus I don't use Facebook, or What's app because I dont want yet another company knowing everything that I do (both are owned by "Facebook", so I understand.)

I like email especially for non-social mail like with sellers or tradespeople, as it's a really good way of keeping track of what's been agreed, and can be sorted into folders etc. But for social and family I usually use whatsapp or messenger as it's more immediate and friendly (though I keep some history with those too)

I don’t use Facebook any longer, but I do use WhatsApp to connect with family. It is the only thing GS is allowed to have on his phone at the moment. We are also included, for some unknown reason, in a WhatsApp thing for the junior football club so I get strings of messages waking me up at unearthly hours (which is any time before seven in this house!) of the morning saying “yes, Freddie/Charlie/Max/ Uncle Tom Cobley can play on Sunday” or “Any volunteers to help put the nets up?” I keep asking my SiL to take us off it, but he keeps forgetting. I only email a very few people socially these days.

I have been advised not to send bank details by email as it is not safe.

If you want to use Whatsapp on your laptop your phone has to be connected to the app before you can use it.

I'm not on Facebook, so I'd be scuppered!

Willow - I didn't realise you could have Whatsapp on a laptop. I must investigate that. I find most people now use Whatsapp and FB messenger for messages rather than email or text but I find it so difficult to write much on the phone. Laptops with a keyboard are so much easier.
I hadn't realised you could use Messenger for phone calls. One of my sons uses Skype for calls .

I recently bought a box of CDs at an auction and as I left the young man on the door (security) expressed surprise that anyone still listened to CDs. I thought they were modern! Apparently everyone now downloads music. I do sometimes send eCards but not at Christmas.

Thanks Kitty and Blue.

WhatsApp is also messaging through WiFi and therefore free! We send photos, videos and links in it. If you find the app and install it, it will show you who you can connect to.

Messenger is telephone / video/ or written message connected through Facebook and obviously free as it comes through your WiFi It really does make your landline almost redundant I hardly ever use my landline for personal use and only really get business calls on it I use messenger to make all my overseas calls and it’s normally good reception you can use it for group ( family) chats too
I don’t use WhatsApp so I ll leave someone else to tell you about that

Ok folks need a Granny Friendly description of WhatsApp and Messenger please, I am obviously behind the times.

As some of the others have said the only email I get are junk, or official ones from the council or bank.
It’s WhatsApp or Messenger for family and friends.