Anecdotally, my entire EU rolodex has shifted from WhatsApp to Telegram and Signal over the past month. Now, my friends-and-neighbors lean heavily towards the

Anecdotally, my entire EU rolodex has shifted from WhatsApp to Telegram and Signal over the past month. Now, my friends-and-neighbors lean heavily towards the software industry, so this most likely does not translate immediately across WhatsApp's entire EU user base. On the other hand, software people tend to be on the leading edge of new trends in technology. Europeans tend to care a lot more about privacy than their American counterparts, and I doubt that Facebook's rather ham-fisted approach towards EU markets and their associated regulators is going to play well in the medium-to-long term.