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Re:Leave Facebook by sgolecha on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @06:57PM (#23397512)
I am not on FB and I tried to get out of WhatsApp too. I deleted WhatsApp and implored all my friends to move to Signal. But out of the 100 or so people I reached, only 2 moved to Signal. My extended family is in India and WhatsApp is very entrenched there. The other issue is that people in India do not realize that the attention issue these apps create is a long term problem - at least not yet.
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Re:Leave Facebook by jaldhar on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @07:34PM (#23397805)
Yes this is a huge problem. After several years of shunning Facebook I installed WhatsApp last year because it’s the only way to stay in contact with much of my family these days.
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