The great versatility of Telegram has made it able to gain ground over WhatsApp, having multiple options that make it much more than a messaging application. The tool created by the Dúrov brothers is already one of the self-sufficient apps and hopes to continue being so over the next few years.
In Telegram, users can use an "alias", this will make it possible to be searched by that nickname, the username is eligible by the person who uses the app. Among other things, we can find certain people without the need for their phone, given that over time many have hidden this option.
Today we are going to teach you how to send messages in Telegram to unadded contacts in the calendar, this can be done by anyone within the application. You may have received a message from an anonymous person, whom you know nothing about, but this rarely happens.
Links with phone number
The latest update of Telegram has incorporated a function which WhatsApp did have, that of using the links to be able to chat with a phone number. You will be able to send messages to a specific person, all this as long as you know the nine digits of the person in question.
Important is privacy in Telegram, which can hide the phone, in turn you can also do it with the links, so it will not work on those people who have decided to hide it. It is a restriction within the possible ones, but you can try to contact that contact that you have not added.
Telegram gives the user two options when it comes to privacy, to be visible to contacts or so that everyone can find you. It is up to you to activate one or the other, for security it is best to activate the one so that your contacts can find you and not everyone.
Send a message with a direct link to the number
Until relatively recently it was impossible to send a message to a person without the need to add it to the contact list, looking for it by username. The username becomes public, visible to anyone who wants to find someone else quickly by their "nickname."
Until today, a person can use the direct link next to the nickname to reach her, for example if we put the link “t.me/user”, in “user” type the alias of the specific person. It will open a window with the information of the user in question, to be able to talk to her you have to click on “Send Message”.
The same happens when sending a message with the number, you have to replace the “user” with the prefix next to the 9 digits. You have to put it all together, in our case we have put an invented one, but you can use one of your contacts to go directly to it.
To send a message to a number, Do the following:
- Launch your phone's browser
- Type the command “https://t.me/+34611223344” and wait for the window to open, in the randomly placed number write the person you want to chat with directly
- And that's it, with this it will open you to the other person directly to whom you can send messages, you can write a number of the contacts you know and the conversation with her will open
The alternative, add the contact temporarily
The only alternative to sending messages to certain people without adding your phone is to add the person in question temporarily. Adding a contact in Telegram will not affect the agenda, so if you want you can do it independently.
The point is that you can write to a user and you can delete the number if you want after sending a message, having the conversation always open. It's a quick way to chat with someone and it doesn't cost much, just know how to do this in the app.
If you want to add a number in Telegram, you can do the following:
- Launch the Telegram app on your phone
- Click on the three horizontal stripes at the top left and then click on “Contacts”
- Within contacts, click on the symbol located in the lower right, on the contact icon and the + symbol
- Add the name and surnames, then choose the prefix and add the number and click on the “Confirmation” button
- And voila, you can now open the contact and send them a message as you would with anyone
Find people by username
A quick way to find someone is by using their username, for this you can use the magnifying glass located at the top right. When you open the application you only have to open the aforementioned magnifying glass and start looking for the person you want to talk to, you can use their alias.
This well-known username is used to find someone quickly, all this avoiding the filter of using the telephone number, the latter will not always be necessary. For this the person has to have chosen one in the options configuration, to do this, simply enter “Settings” – Username and choose the first name.
You can find a lot of your environment like this, but as long as one was put into the Telegram options, which has once entered many. If it is the other way around, to put one with whom they know you, they can find you quickly and write to you as long as your privacy is not too high.
stop sharing the number
The option of not sharing the number on Telegram exists and it is easy to activate it. If you decide not to expose your phone to those who can see it, it is best to hide it. The action is done by many people, so you can do it by yourself and without asking anyone's opinion.
To hide the number from everyone, Do the following:
- Launch the Telegram app
- Click on the three horizontal stripes
- Now go to “Settings” and go to “Privacy and security”
- Click on “Phone number” and inside you have several options
- In "Who can see my number?", put "Nobody", in the second option put «My contacts», leaving all unchecked
- You can add exceptions, so if you want you can add them from contacts