I find it perplexing that the main criticism of WhatsApp is that it's owned by Facebook.
I live in Germany, where WhatsApp has a stranglehold on the communications market. I have a friend who decided to stop using WhatsApp, and it amazes me how much more excluded from her old social circles she is now.
And people say, "Ditch WhatsApp, because it's owned by Facebook! Use [secure app] instead!"
New apps will not change the fact that we force people to use apps in the first place.
I find it perplexing that the main criticism of WhatsApp is that it's owned by Facebook.
@pcrock Yeah, I find that annoying too. It's just an app that *enables* people to communicate with each other. Why should it be a cause for exclusion, just because it's owned by Facebook?
So, what I have resorted to do is, I *still* have WhatsApp, with the minimum set of permissions I can grant:
* No Camera
* No GPS
* No Storage
* No Contacts
This means I cannot initiate conversations with people I want to talk to, but I can only continue from previous conversations (or they have to initiate them first). I'm perfectly fine with that - as in, I'm not itching to talk to them *only* over WhatsApp when I can do with alternative medium of communication just fine.
