WhatsApp has clearly entered the enshittification stage of the product cycle. Most obviously, it regularly creates spam/advertising chats, and now it has some A

WhatsApp has clearly entered the enshittification stage of the product cycle. Most obviously, it regularly creates spam/advertising chats, and now it has some AI chatbot nonsense. It's a pity, because it used to be very close to an ideal messenger, from a usability perspective. More generally, these days I find that there just really isn't any good single messenger or social media that most sane people are happy to use these days. WhatsApp is getting spammy and is owned by Meta. Facebook is full of spam too, and it's difficult to just use the messenger without also having a screen full of other spam next to it. Also the cool kids don't use / aren't on facebook now. Telegram is still pretty good to use, but doesn't have the adoption that WhatsApp / FB once did. Skype, MSN, Yahoo chat, MSN, ICQ, etc. all dead now. It seems like it's just not possible to have a stable messenger that doesn't get slurped up into some bigger thing, then destroyed. Oh well.