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Is it (still) worth trying to switch my family and friends from WhatsApp to Signal? (Read all of it, please.) (kbin.social)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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This may sound a bit dumb, but eh.

So when that WhatsApp privacy policy change thing happened in early 2021, I tried switching from WhatsApp to Signal and Telegram. Telegram kinda stuck with me since i still get news from there, but Signal... not really because I didn't care about privacy back then. Now, I want to make the switch from WhatsApp to Signal, and I have a few plans on how to do that. But, is it worth it, since most people in Türkiye use Whatsapp and even if I switch my family and friends over to Signal, they'll still use WhatsApp since most people are on there.

So, yeah. Should i try, or is it not worth doing? Let me know, also, thanks in advance!

(Note: Most of my family and friends don't really care about privacy.)

(Note 2: This was also posted in c/[email protected], r/signal and r/privacy subreddits.)

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[–] CookieJarObserver 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just ghost them by deleting your account on WhatsApp.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thinking of that but that would probably make them (my family and/or friends) mad lol.

I am posting some statuses and changing my profile pic saying "Contact me on Signal".

[–] CookieJarObserver 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah if they care about you they will swith. I forced mine as well. (2016 however)