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		auxbuss on Jan 28, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Facebook can now read your texts I'm not sure why you consider that a red herring. You can disable Hangouts and Android will fall back to the standard Messaging app.

desas on Jan 28, 2014 [–]

The standard messaging app isn't installed by default on modern android phones (nexus 5). You can of course install 3rd party messaging apps.

auxbuss on Jan 29, 2014 | [–]

Well, admittedly my phone isn't bleeding-edge, being a nexus 4, but it runs the latest version of Android and removal of Hangouts does make Messaging the SMS app.

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