'Leaving WhatsApp will be hard - but it is the right thing to do'

Jenni_D

sweetgirl2015 said:

Won't it be a hassle and people might lose facebook friends through switching? 

Some people might argue that this could be a good thing.  

sweetgirl2015

Jenni_D said:

sweetgirl2015 said:

Won't it be a hassle and people might lose facebook friends through switching? 

Some people might argue that this could be a good thing.  

lol I think so too 😅

MattMattMattUK

wongataa said:

sweetgirl2015 said:

Sorry am I missing the point here or something, what is wrong with Facebook ownership of Watsapp anyway? Why are people made to think they have to jump ship to Signal whatever that is lol.
Won't it be a hassle and people might lose facebook friends through switching? 

Under the current terms Facebook doesn't access the Whatsapp data.  Under the new terms Facebook can use the Whatsapp data for whatever Facebook wants to.  Facebook wants to use the Whatsapp data to make money from it as it does with Facebook account data.  This results in privacy concerns.

Signal is a messaging app similar to Whatsapp that is privacy focused.

It will serve you some slightly less irrelevant apps, depending on what you message on WhatsApp, it hardly becomes a privacy risk for people, unless they constantly message about wanting to have an affair for example. 

Roger1

JJ_Egan said:

Dont know anybody on signal .

Yet.     

feet_up

It will serve you some slightly less irrelevant apps, depending on what you message on WhatsApp, it hardly becomes a privacy risk for people, unless they constantly message about wanting to have an affair for example. 

How does it become a privacy issue for those people?

Asking for a friend

MattMattMattUK

feet_up said:

It will serve you some slightly less irrelevant apps, depending on what you message on WhatsApp, it hardly becomes a privacy risk for people, unless they constantly message about wanting to have an affair for example. 

How does it become a privacy issue for those people?

Asking for a friend

Well if someone was messaging about having an affair a lot and it was scanning and serving ads on that basis, then it might serve ads something like the website Ashley Madison, which is an affair finding website.

RumRat

As no one can read the messages you sent except the recipient, how would they know you were having an affair?
You need to have a bit of a rethink on that....

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sweetgirl2015 said:

Sorry am I missing the point here or something, what is wrong with Facebook ownership of Watsapp anyway? Why are people made to think they have to jump ship to Signal whatever that is lol.
Won't it be a hassle and people might lose facebook friends through switching? 

Yea you’re right people will go to whatever messaging app is easier for them and their friends. I use telegram, discord, Skype, iMessage for friends and WhatsApp’s for work. 

The only problem Facebook have in owning WhatsApp is their dominance in social media. They also own Instagram and if they don’t appease the USA regulator bodies especially with democrats now in government they could find themselves having to sell one of those platforms. 

JJ_Egan

Signal gone down something to do with a flood of new users .

Signal is experiencing technical difficulties. We are working hard to restore service as quickly as possible.

Mercenary

I'm trying out Signal AND Telegram instead of Whatsapp.  Signal is the most secure but doesn't (yet?) have decorative frills. Telegram is very good too. Fully customisable and has the option for super-secret chats if required.

Although Facebook have backed off insisting that we grant them access until May now, I refuse to allow them to scrape my location, phone number, contacts and any other metadata that they try to get.  I know that technically we are protected by GDPR but Facebook have already mused about moving the UK servers to the US servers at some point after Brexit.  The US does NOT have much, if any, data protection laws.
So I'm leaving the holed ship along with many others who want to keep their details out of Facebook's clutches. If any of you are perfectly happy because they already have every detail about you and your life on Facebook itself, then you don't need to do anything.