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Our voice phone systems are seamlessly federated. You can call people across carriers, over national boundaries, instantaneously, and the only friction is slightly more numbers to dial.
SMS is also remarkably well federated. In the early 2000s, every carrier had their own text messaging platform. Today, you can send an SMS to practically anyone.
So here's my question: why the hell do we mess around with so many proprietary OTT services? Why do you have some friends who WhatsApp, others who Telegram, others who Signal? Why do we have to figure out whether to Zoom or Meet or FaceTime or Jitsi? We are literally all carrying phones 24x7. Let's just use our phones.
@evan If you have my phone number you can make it ring any time.
If I don't know you and you send me a zoom link I don't have to click on it.
I run ~3 businesses and have kids who go to school, I kinda need to answer my phone.
@preinheimer so, it's because the address is important that you want to avoid it.