The Lonious Monk;6445129 said:I never understood. What's the point of BBM? What makes it better than regular text messaging or Google Hangouts?
BBM is much more secure.
It has a cleaner interface than some of the other similar messaging services to.
BBM is really more so suited for those folks who want to be social butterflies but don't want to give their number to everyone or folks that want to carry on private conversations but don't want to share their number.
Soon as you create a BBM account you're assigned a PIN consisting of numerical digits and letters.
If you want to keep in touch with someone who also has BBM you simply can give them your PIN or get theirs and invite them to chat.
You can also block users just as easily as you add them.
I hadn't really used Google Hangouts that much but I think you have to share your email address on there.
Security issues could come up with that unless you were using a dummy email and who wants to do that all the time.