Post by @francois
@colinstu@birdbutt.com i deleted my fb account for this reason (among others), people assume you are available and message there, and I didn't have it on my phone so never got back to them - even people that have my phone number. The solution was to delete my account entirely.
@nigel @colinstu@birdbutt.com
Whatsapp is even worse.
I was in Indonesia, where everybody uses whatsapp all the time.
(Needless to say I don't).
Hotel and agencies used to message me and the stupid thing did not even tell them I was not on whatsapp!!!!
Took me a while to understand what was going on.
@francois @colinstu@birdbutt.com oh wow thats crazy; I am guessing you had whatsapp at some point then?
I have had that before where a service thought I was reachable because I had signed up to it in the past and there was no way to delete an account as far as I could tell. So I just didnt use it anymore, and one would think that if you haven't used their app for some time it should notify the sender, right...? Wrong, apparently.