One of the biggest annoyances of social messaging apps like WhatsApp, which I have to explain to everyone new to the app (a number that's dwindling every day), is that you can only start chats with numbers that are saved as phone contacts. The only exception is if you receive a contact's number from someone else inside a messaging chat, in which case you can start talking to them without adding them to your address book first.

However, there are a few ways to bypass this limitation, one of which is provided by social messaging itself, though not natively in the app. If you're not aware of these, I'll explain three of the easiest methods below.

You can use an app to speed things up. Several Android apps use this wa.me links but in a non-user-facing way — i.e. you don't have to type a URL or pass by a web browser first. You simply enter the phone number, tap a button, and you're taken to a newly-created chat in WhatsApp or any social messaging app.

Send a message without adding a contact number for social messaging apps.

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