Re:How to Delete Facebook and Instagram from Your Life Forever
by mrweasel on Monday October 15, 2018 @01:35AM
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I think that may depend on where in Europe. I don’t know a single Dane on WhatsApp. There no point to WhatsApp when SMS is basically free.
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Re:How to Delete Facebook and Instagram from Your Life Forever
by titaniczero on Monday October 15, 2018 @06:17AM
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Well, I do have danish friends which use WhatsApp a lot, but I guess you're right. Here in Spain you must have WhatsApp. Otherwise, you're literally isolated. I have free texts too but we don't use them at all. Also, it may worth mentioning they're not even encrypted and ISPs have full control on them.
So at the end of the day there're good reasons to not use SMS:
(1) 0 encryption (2) ISP's full control (3) Doesn't support videocalls (4) Doesn't support neither complex files nor previewing files (5) Doesn't support groups (6) Doesn't support voice messages (7) There're plans which don't include texts so they're not always free
The only apps I use here are WhatsApp and iMessage and I'd love to ditch WhatsApp in favour of signal but I can't.