Telegram is trash

[rodskee]

Seems it's just an echo chamber that tells you your bags are going to the moon... And if the price happens to go down? ?
....then it's another chance to fill your bags even more LMFAO!

One critical observation.... Instaban!

Silly ass shit

Am I wrong?

in my opinion it is natural that most members on telegram think positively, because they always support the project they invest in (as long as the project is not a scam) and in my opinion it is not just telegram, but all forums that discuss about cryptocurrency will always think positively and support the project they are invest.

Do they really support the project or they are just hanging around trying to have a chance being paid sooner?but what if they did not Get the bounty on the said date of release?starting to say BS against the project?
i am not saying this to all but at least majority of those who shills in telegram is either paid by the team or those bounty hunters that longing to get some high in rewards?

OP is correct,Why not there is an option that the whole conversation can be deleted?if these platform really cares about their users .

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[Tipstar]

Seems it's just an echo chamber that tells you your bags are going to the moon... And if the price happens to go down? ?
....then it's another chance to fill your bags even more LMFAO!

One critical observation.... Instaban!

Silly ass shit

Am I wrong?

Telegram is a tool. It's a social network and an messaging app that's been useful for many. Due to the nature of telegram, I don't think it's a suitable place to discuss about crypto and finance. Telegram is focused towards anonymity and hence does not implement any hard regulations on how individuals and groups operate. There are many so called signal and pump group and they do really work, but only for the operators and not the users. The group operators buys the coin first and ask for pump from users. They are the one who profits from the pump at the expanse of users money.

[Mpamaegbu]

Am I wrong?

Yes, I do think you went on the extreme with your choice of word — Trash. There is often (a) loophole(s) with most apps where they can be exploited, and this isn't just a telegram thing. For me, Telegram is the best chat app I have come across in the course of my online engagements and business. I mean you can't make any attempt comparing it with WhatsApp, can you? I do agree that community admins often display their tyranny with it by banning participants whose comments they don't like but we really can't blame Telegram for that. We should blame the uncouth members for their loose utterances. Also, I do like the anonymity angle of it. You meet users without even having access to their phone numbers except they avail you of it.

[virasog]

Seems it's just an echo chamber that tells you your bags are going to the moon... And if the price happens to go down? ?
....then it's another chance to fill your bags even more LMFAO!

One critical observation.... Instaban!

Silly ass shit

Am I wrong?

Telegram is a tool. It's a social network and an messaging app that's been useful for many. Due to the nature of telegram, I don't think it's a suitable place to discuss about crypto and finance. Telegram is focused towards anonymity and hence does not implement any hard regulations on how individuals and groups operate. There are many so called signal and pump group and they do really work, but only for the operators and not the users. The group operators buys the coin first and ask for pump from users. They are the one who profits from the pump at the expanse of users money.

Telegram is a useful application and much better than whatapps and other messaging applications but due to the anonymity feature it is used to spam and also scam people. Once you do a deal with any telegram user and get scammed, here is no way you can trace him.

[isaac_clarke22]

You can say the same to every social media sites we got.
There's Facebook groups with circles of crypto holders and even cults there if I can recall some of them claiming to be one before.
They can say anything they want, in the end it is just like those whales telling you to sell so that they can grab your coins after you sell.

[tranthidung]

Everything in life can be abused by bad people, include scammers.

Telegram itself has its advantages and disadvantages.

Advantages:

• Real time conversation
• Funny
• It self-desstroyed features (you can set up period a specific secret conversation will be destroyed)

Disadvantages:

• Spam
• Difficult to manage updates by categories (developments, news, promotions, etc.). You can do it better on Discord.
• Scammers are around
• Be invited to join many scam, signal groups if you don't customize your privacy settings

About scammers, you need to know how to detect them:
- They tend to fake admins, moderators by put usernames of admins, moderators in their Bio areas. Remember they hide their usernames but try to scam others with Bio (that shows usernames of admins or moderators). Real admins or moderators show their usernames.
- If a scammer account get enough scam reports from community and are handled well by Telegram, their accounts will have a Scam badge.

You can help community by report scammers you see.

Some good threads on Telegram:

• Telegram scams
• Do this if you don't want to be dragged to different telegram ICOs
• Some Telegram tips for newcomers in the crypto community
• how to report a scam on telegram ? recommended way
• What Is “Scam” Label Next To Telegram Username? How To Report Telegram Scammers?

[MCDev]

I don't think telegram is a trash can, there are still many very good telegram groups out there. Telegram, fb, tw are just like our society, there are many good people and bad guys, there are also many opportunities to make money and many bad projects that cost us money.
Closely examining the telephoto group and the information we find there will lead us to make the most accurate decisions.

[mr.smith]

Telegram is an information media in my opinion. A small example of how many people are negligent and left behind when there is an Update notification about the distribution of prizes on a project because they think it is not really important. this in my opinion.

They can so announce it in their social media account project that only announced in one media is not trustworthy if there is an update they should announce it in their blog, twitter and on their official announcement thread, there are people who are not active in telegram or prefer to follow on their social media accounts.

[matchi2011]

I don't think telegram is a trash can, there are still many very good telegram groups out there. Telegram, fb, tw are just like our society, there are many good people and bad guys, there are also many opportunities to make money and many bad projects that cost us money.
Closely examining the telephoto group and the information we find there will lead us to make the most accurate decisions.

Social media channels is useful  depends from how people  see the value of information. If you are keen to find more deeper info every details should be backed up of your own research, people should avoid to blindly followed whatever the sharer provides inside the channels
it's your obligation to gather everything to favor you and make a good worth of those shared data.

[Kunnu]

In some ways your point of view is reasonable and I can't be disagree with it but telegram has became a necessary platform for us and we mustn't criticize its reputation because of some bunch of people who spread negativity and fud there well, we have options there to avoid all kind of negativity to keep our side clean and safe so we mustn't hesitate to use those options.

[EmmaGod]

Telegram is like every other social media with diverse people, even the almighty Bitcointalk forum has the issue of spam to contend with and that does not make the forum trashy. I'm of the opinion that what determines your opinion is the group you belong and they're some healthy telegram channels and groups with awesome information and healthy conversations.

It's a norm for projects investors to be committed to promoting their tokens. We know what really makes the value of the token higher is the forces of demand and supply. The investors strives in their capacity to increase the demand of the token and this may be carried out in an unruly manner, but it does not change the motive.

On our part, we choose the information that is necessary and leave the rest, in my social media approach, I've learnt to ignore what's unnecessary to me and focus on the beneficial information and that has given me the opportunity to learn more instead of generalising everything as trashy.

[samputin]

I somewhat agree with the above. Telegram is not all trash, there are many groups which are useful not only to potential investors but to newbies also.

These kind of instances are explained by airdrop participants because they are the ones that are in thousand of shit telegram groups and channels shouting all sort of pump and dump noise which sometimes causes newbies diving in for a trade because of FOMO

I won't argue with that because I had the experience. I mean, during quarantine, I joined telegram groups regarding airdrops. At first I thought it was fun but later on, I realized that I'm just waiting my time. I didn't open my telegram for several weeks and when I opened it last week, the groups I'm part of have labels on the side saying, "Scam". I'm just glad I didn't take it seriously. I left those groups immediately. Good riddance.

[sourish]

Though crypto is here to stay in no uncertain terms, the information sources, or educators are still very few. Telegram and twitter are proving to be two real sources of interactive social exchange, and to outright dismiss or reject them as a whole would really be foolish. One just needs to be discerning enough to be a part of the right groups and projects.

[NavI_027]

What are you exactly pertaining about? The messaging app itself or the projects with telegram channels that you joined in? Be precise because many will contradict you (seems obvious actually). If you had a bad experience on such projects then get mad on those projects not on the medium . If I were you, I will move on once and for all and avoid investing in new tokens. That's the key I think.

[Jackl87]

It's not telegram that is trash it's only a share of the people that are using it.
I also hate it, when people are shilling projects all the time without even giving one fact why this project is the greatest ever.
And then, when the price of a project is falling they are attacking the admins of the project and telling them to do something like they are in control of a free market.

[maxreish]

Guess you haven't join such telegram channel or group that are very useful in terms of crypto trading, predictions and analysis. However, not all were really trash, although most of them were really created useless or for different purposes (to advertise, airdrops, or to makena wcam) but some were still useful. I have this one local telegram group channel where in we can share ideas, predictions and target entry.

It's not totally trash.

[X-ray]

That's a common thing for sure. There are so many trollers, scammers, liars, shillers in telegram and any ico groups will always have these types of persons.

If you are seeing some people were saying it before and then you may enter to the wild ecosystem of telegram. So many fudders even the scammers in the exchange sites group too.

I think that depends on the mod and if there are mods and it may not happen as those were totally banned.

[ampu]

Telegram has a lot of junk content because it's so easy to develop or do something on this app. It's like Ethereum, too many tokens are junk.
We shouldn't blame Telegram, it's more convenient and easier to use. If the telegram is garbage, Facebook, twitter also contains a lot of trash.

[meanwords]

Seems it's just an echo chamber that tells you your bags are going to the moon... And if the price happens to go down? ?
....then it's another chance to fill your bags even more LMFAO!

One critical observation.... Instaban!

Silly ass shit

Am I wrong?

Well, I can agree to some extent because every project telegram I've joined so far are like that which is why I don't use telegram anymore except when a bounty campaign needs it. They are just full of bots, bounty hunters who are just there because of rules, hypes that doesn't have a base, SCAMS, and FOMO. It's also so inorganized and when you compare it to discord, It's so inferior. So yeah it's trash lol.

[ipanks]

The @OP is not wrong. The telegram as a media that has large people gather in many channels from all over the world. But we need to be careful because it seems the scammers tend to use telegram to scam their target. I see many of them trying to invite more people to their channels and ask them to invest in one or more coins, but then they play with the pump and dump price. The investor gets losing their money, but they can not complain to anyone because the scammers are already run away with the money.