I’m sad to report that I’ve received a lot of pushback, ranging from: “it’s too late to keep things from the Zuck” to, “it’s too hard to move to another app.”
@vishae I’ve had a bit more success. Transitioned my main non-need friend group and my family group. We moved to Signal.
@vishae same here… people don’t care. Some I could at least convince to also use Telegram and/or Signal, but no one deleted WhatsApp. What‘s worse is that they just keep your data. You can’t really delete your account, just delete the data from your device. Also, people will never get notified when they write you on WhatsApp, it’s like you‘re ignoring them.
@pcora I know… it just makes me sad. Businesses think they need to rely on that but I think it is also a risk for them. Our neighbor didn’t realize we did not answer any message on WhatsApp in the last two years, because we just don‘t have it anymore. „Oh you don‘t have WhatsApp? Well I can then delete your number, right?“ It‘s a synonym for their phone. „Normal“ people cannot distinguish these tools (it’s not the first time I had to see this). I’m a little harder on that. If people don’t even care to communicate with me through standard tools like text messages or phone calls, or with a different app that does exactly the same, it can’t be too important for them to communicate with me at all, so…
@pcora I actually make it a point to tell services that if they expect me to communicate with them via FB then it’s not going to happen. Companies took forever to understand that social media was a thing, it’s going to take users to tell them that social media shouldn’t replace normal avenues of communications (eg. email, phone, face-to-face)
@mangochutney Good luck with the transition! I was wondering with GDPR as well but then… it’s Facebook, what can we expect. If you find out how it works, let me know 😉