![]() Kik sports a fairly basic interface with very few customization options. However, you can play game in Kik, share photos, send stickers, YouTube videos, sketches, memes, and even video recorded in-app. Kik isn't as full featured as other messaging services, as there are no options to make calls, share your location or send audio. Although it doesn't tell you when your friend was last online. When chatting you can see if your friends have read the message (although not when they read it) and there is no option to turn this off (similar to WhatsApp's blue ticks feature). There seem to be groups for most user interests and businesses are also getting in on the act by creating their own groups to gain 'followers'. If you make the group public you can add a hashtag so people can search and join (again expect some spammers). Kik allows you to create groups of up to 50 members, which can either be invite only or public. ![]() ![]() Be warned, you will almost certainly receive spam messages from people you don't know, although you can block people or mute chats for certain periods of time, which can help if people bombard you with messages or get irritating. Once you've found some friends who are also using Kik you can start chatting by clicking on the chat bubble. If you don't want people to find you, all you have to do is give a fake name. While it makes it much harder to find friends, as you can't automatically populate your friends list via phone number, it does provide that extra layer of privacy since you don't have to give out any personal details. To sign up with Kik, you need to provide your name (real or not) and then pick a username as this is how your friends (and random people) will find you.
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