The neighbourhood watch uses WhatsApp as its primary communication channel, friends are posting group activity photo's and are reminiscing about past activities on Instagram, all the internet your elderly uncle knows is Facebook, all the local used goods sales go through Facebook, some of the best consumer grade VR sets are owned and sold by Facebook, many modern websites are built on Facebook's React, any new novel app that is released gets copied within months by Facebook.
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This is 100% on the regulatory bodies who just let this happen, and still are. They just don't seem to understand the gravity of the situation.
I was happily using WhatsApp (and had even paid beforehand when they were only charging what they needed to operate).
I invested a lot of effort to onboard family members.
Everything was fine, until Facebook purchased WhatsApp by paying about 40 USD per user.
Now I have to invest a similar amount of effort in getting people to move to Signal.