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Why hide emergency contact info? Put it in Emergency group on everyone's phone.

The goal should be to send a single message with nature of emergency, what you need from them, and what they do like call police

I could see a private reference page with important info. Including checklist for various scenarios. That's what I thought you did. Then print out a copy and put in binder somewhere at home.

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> If they don't have WhatsApp

Is this really likely? I would guess only 70 year olds don't have WhatsApp.

Seems more likely you forget the impoprtant phone numbers because you never enter them manually.

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Nobody in my friend group has a WhatsApp and I'm a millennial.
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Depends where you are, in most European countries, everyone including their grandmas will use Whatsapp.
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It doesn’t have to be just for one type of user.
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In the US, the only people I know who use WhatsApp are immigrants who use it to talk to friends and family back home.
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With iMessage, Discord, and Signal, I can't imagine a use case for me or anyone I know to use WhatsApp.
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The vast majority of the world defaults to whatsapp. But yes, other than convention, any of these could be equivalent.

I don’t see why you would care for Discord over whatsapp except that it’s what you happen to use already.

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WhatsApp is not universally used. Line, WeChat, and KakaoTalk are more common in East Asia
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lol not 70, no Whatsapp.
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