Switching from WhatsApp

Literally noone I know is on Telegram or Signal. Literally everyone is on WhatsApp. Pretty much noone I know cares about privacy, and they're all on Facebook anyway. It's gonna be really hard giving it up :-/

I switched a few years ago from WhatsApp to Signal. I was kind of the one and only person in my Signal contacts then. Most people didn't understand why I left WhatsApp and convincing didn't really help. By the time more and more people started to use Signal too so today I miss no one. I think the topic behind it is way deeper than the technical stuff or which app to use. Use what you are confident of. Important people will use whatever is available to stay in touch with you, because co

I think you are an outlier in that regard. Almost nobody I know is using any other messaging app instead of WhatsApp, and I just graduated out of University so my social circle consists of a lot of fresh engineering grads. It is hard for me to convince even my batchmates to install signal. I think people don't want to install anything else as none of their contacts are on any other platform.

I tried to replace WhatsApp with Signal, by telling all my frequent WhatsApp contacts I'm moving to signal and they should download it if they want to talk to me.About 10% of contacts moved to Signal. I lost touch with the rest and Signal was in many ways worse than WhatsApp for everyday communication.I ended up using WhatsApp again. For me, it's too popular to leave.

I recently achieved that quite a bunch of my friends switched from Whatsapp to Signal. It takes quite something to explain people why it isn't difficult to just chat in another app. But I'm happy those who came over never complained and now I have more 1:1 chats via Signal than via Whatsapp.

And when she has them, it'll be something different ridiculous. Seriously, this is what whatsapp is for. I don't see why we have to dump down EVERYTHING for those people.From my own experience the biggest reason is that "my friends are elsewhere". I force my gf to use signal, her mother started to use it too because of that and because she wants to have PC problems solved by me. Same goes for other people that want to interact with me through an communication app like Sign

Same situation with WhatsApp. It's deeply engrained in my home country's social groups. One group of friends followed me to Telegram, along with my direct family... but my more distant relatives and other groups of friends didn't bite. The other difficult one was Facebook Messenger.Guess I'm banking on people finally realizing how creepy Facebook is. But since some of my friends have abandoned Facebook in favor of Instagram, of all places... guess I'm playing the long

None of the people I had on WhatsApp think like me. They're mostly just my family and relatives. But I told them "I'm quitting WhatsApp, if you need to message me, use Signal". And they all just downloaded Signal because it's honestly not that big of a deal. It's just another free chat app."It's not how the world works". Of course it is. Most people downloaded WhatsApp because someone told them to so they could message each other.

That's what I thought as a european in the beginning of this year.But in a matter of weeks, all of my closest friends and family members downloaded Signal. I was able to convert some people by myself by just deleting my WhatsApp account.Last year I had a phase where I wanted to ungoogle/uncloud my life. I never thought that I would be able to delete WhatsApp for the same reasons you mentioned. Turns out, most people don't really care about installing another messenger, if th

I tried to stop using WhatsApp, but failed. I even promote Signal to my WhatsApp contacts (if they were to switch, Signal would be the most likely option). I succeeded with most of the people I talk to the most. Unfortunately, the majority of my contacts are still only on WhatsApp (and even less appropriate messengers like Telegram and Instagram). WhatsApp remains the lesser evil. I hope that one day I'll be able to stop using the last major tech service I rely on (at least those that don&#