I received a very important message on my phone the other day which may or may not have been related to the election. A notification signalling its arrival popped up on the lock screen when I picked up the phone in the morning.But after half an hour of searching I still couldn’t find the message. It could’ve arrived using any of my numerous apps: iMessage, SMS, WhatsApp, WeChat, Twitter, Facebook Messenger, Telegram, Skype or plain old e-mail.To add to the general confusion, most of the messaging apps on my phone use the same green icon, making it harder to differentiate between them.I used to despair at the volume of e-mails I receive every day (there are 6,218 unread e-mails on my phone alone) but now I am drowning under the deluge of messages — worse are the notifications from these apps — my phone and laptop spew out every day.Every new messaging service comes with a painful codicil, you have to check it.I’m a big fan of all of these services — they all have their own advantages...
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