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I know everyone else in the west seems to use WhatsApp but in my social circle I connect to nearly everyone via FB Messenger. I have but don't use WhatsApp. I h
by gernb 4y ago
I know everyone else in the west seems to use WhatsApp but in my social circle I connect to nearly everyone via FB Messenger. I have but don't use WhatsApp. I have no idea what it provides that FB Messenger doesn't provide and better. I don't need a phone number for FB Messenger. I can access it trivially at messenger.com, no need for the crazy QR code non-sense of WhatsApp. I also do not have to give FB Messenger access to my contact list, unlike WhatsApp (maybe that's changed but it used to be required).
- morelish 4y agoWhatsApp doesn’t provide anything messenger doesn’t. As far as I can tell, WhatsApp as a product reached its ‘market fit’ years and years ago, in that they stopped bothering trying to add anything to it. Real pity in some ways its not even slightly extensible
- Matl 4y ago> WhatsApp doesn’t provide anything messenger doesn’t. People say Telegram provides everything Signal does too, but seem to forget about E2E by default.
- AdvancedCarrot 4y agoMain thing is vastly better privacy. Messenger doesn't use E2E encryption and has no options for disappearing chats. Facebook can and do read your messages at will.
- ffzdmfkdk 4y agoMessenger has E2EE and disappearing messages now as well.