Shard

What they need to come up with is a Facebook for the deceased, so that they can keep in touch with their social network from Heaven or Hell or wherever they end up. That would be a real killer app!

caretaker

Involuntary reaction - thought of Brooks, Ab.

mandymoochops

I read somewhere that nowadays people are having bar codes or whatever inlaid into their headstones so that visitors to cemeteries can use an app on their phone to scan it and a load of info comes up about the dead person!

I think that's really quite cool, I love wandering (or should I say when I was in the UK I did) round looking at all the old graves and wondering who these people were - this would give you an insight!!!!!

JB0591

I used WhatsApp for a while but not going to pay for it now my free trial is up. Just got a tablet so wanted to find a cross platform chat/video app for BBM/Android/IOS......settled on 'oovoo'. It has ads but it is not intrusive. Just a shame it only supports BBM10. I like the features including sharing desktop etc.

caretaker

Give you the creeps you mean! As for the bar code I also have to disagree - if you're dead and 6' down in a box or ashes in a cookie jar don't you think a little privacy is warranted?

mandymoochops

I think its at the request of the dead person (before they died obviously!!!!)

scrubbedexpat091

I go to old grave yards (some still in operation, some not) when I see one, I find it interesting to see how far back some go.

The graveyard where my grandfather is buried is mostly retired, its an old civil cemetery in Oklahoma, and only way into it now is to have been born before 1940, and have a relative buried there, but its not maintained, so its very overgrown, but goes back to the 1870's, and the amount of young people who are buried, really brings home how much things have changed since then.

caretaker

Mike and Jim were looking at headstones and Jim shouts from the far side by the road, "There's a man here was 125!" "Really?, says Mike, what's his name?"
"Miles, from London."

Shard

orly

The group chat function is useful. A few mates back home use it and I join in. Usually to co-ordinate what time we'll all be available for a game of Battlefield 4

Paul_Shepherd

LOL!! i thought it was just me that called it that!! Good to hear im not alone!

Paul_Shepherd

I use whatsapp regulary, I've heard rumours that they are going to start charging for it, if this is true, I wont use it any more, I get unlimited international SMS, the main reason i started using whatsapp is that i found it far more reliable than SMS, many of my friends and family in the UK never recieved SMS's I sent.

With other free cross platform messaging services around i shall be defecting if whatsapp start charging for it.

I have heard viber is good and even BBM is cross platform now too? and they are free, I always liked BBM so I hope so.

Animal

I used to use WhatsApp but changed to using viber (which has free voice calls also) - both are cross platform.

I actually wouldn't use either really as I have unlimited worldwide SMS and MMS but my friends back in the UK get charged to text me which is why we use viber.

WhatsApp is updating their app to include free voice calls shortly WhatsApp voice calls

Gozit

I use WhatsApp and Viber to communicate with my friends and family back home and elsewhere abroad... Both are great but I find WhatsApp more polished, reliable, and (IMO) worth the $1 a year. But if you're looking for absolutely free, Viber is the way to go. I have Unlimited International SMS as well, but as others have mentioned, people abroad get charged for sending them...