Modern Communication

In today’s time, the words “busy” and “unavailability” are very much present to everyone. It is never easy to invite friends for a huddle talk while having a cup of coffee inside a coffee shop unless someone will treat somebody.

Checking and keeping in touch with our co-workers, school mates and family members are difficult sometimes for some personal and technical reasons but if someone has an internet connection and a mobile device, sending messages to your loved ones or to a group of people anywhere is free of charge using Instant Messaging apps.

Mobile devices are very much common now when it comes to entertainment, socialization and broadcasting. It is considered the most utilized electronic gadget that we use in everyday lives - easy access and sharing of information, exchange of thoughts and broadcast ideas to a group of people that can be done in less than a second wherever we are.

This is called Instant Messaging. Our messages are delivered instantly from one device to other devices but considered not private and not direct, making this more not protected as it goes to a cloud of unknown servers before it reaches our friends’ mobile phones.

While mobile app developers offer a lot of Instant Messaging apps for one to one or group messaging, it needs to figure out what features are suitable for each user to provide ease in Group Communication.

There are apps that provide some and full features for Group Communication. Apps such as Flashat offers both personal and general chat groups for users. They allow users to create Public and Private group chats which are Free to Join or with invitation from other users. In this method, sharing and broadcasting of messages are not limited to your social networks.

IM apps like Zoom and Telegram highlight their security messaging on which they provide end-to-end encryption for messages and link invitations for other users who want to join a particular chat group. Apps like these are limited for other users as they need to Request to Join or ask for an invitation on the said private chat groups.

FB Messenger, WeChat and GroupMe emphasize broader group communication through the use of audio, video calling, games and settle tabs for users to enjoy and learn while in group online sessions, wherein users can also set password for group chats making it private or public. Others like Signal, just provide simple messaging features for users who found other IM apps very complicated to use.

In today’s apps battling to provide an efficient, effective and secure way to deliver instant messages to a large number of people, there are always IM apps that are best suited for the needs of the users. Since these are just ways to reach our loved ones through these IM apps, it still depends on what kind of apps they are using. Just need to choose what is most beneficial to you and tell them to your other contacts so that all of you can start connecting in one app.