I would love to throw it away. But it's impractical due to many family members that use it.
I already gave up FB, adding whatsapp is a lot of work at the moment.
I've switched to a mix of Slack and Signal for a few years now but still have to use whatsapp as well.
Yes, I really feel so difficult to completely get away from WhatsApp... I wish at least they could bring a subscription-based service model which in my opinion sounds a lot safer & practical rather than selling our data.
Also, do you have any plans for making your family members get on a more privacy-friendly platform? Because as we know it's difficult for our parents and other elder family members to learn new apps from scratch. This is going to be a challenge for many of us...
Well, they do ... but they also use WhatsApp a lot. If they were using only mainly to talk just to me or some family they might do it, but they also have their own contacts for which they use WhatsApp a lot and so on.
Couldn't get my mom off Facebook even though many in my family quit it.
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I would love to throw it away. But it's impractical due to many family members that use it.
I already gave up FB, adding whatsapp is a lot of work at the moment.
I've switched to a mix of Slack and Signal for a few years now but still have to use whatsapp as well.
Yes, I really feel so difficult to completely get away from WhatsApp... I wish at least they could bring a subscription-based service model which in my opinion sounds a lot safer & practical rather than selling our data.
Also, do you have any plans for making your family members get on a more privacy-friendly platform? Because as we know it's difficult for our parents and other elder family members to learn new apps from scratch. This is going to be a challenge for many of us...
I guess it would be easy to convince family members to make the switch because maybe they trust you more than someone else.
Well, they do ... but they also use WhatsApp a lot. If they were using only mainly to talk just to me or some family they might do it, but they also have their own contacts for which they use WhatsApp a lot and so on.
Couldn't get my mom off Facebook even though many in my family quit it.