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In past 2 weeks, I have had 2 friends (from UK and India) asking me if I'm on Whatsapp. I felt a bit outdated for not being on it. It reminded me of early days
by chintan 14y ago
In past 2 weeks, I have had 2 friends (from UK and India) asking me if I'm on Whatsapp. I felt a bit outdated for not being on it. It reminded me of early days of FB/Twitter.
- shmerl 14y agoDon't feel outdated in avoiding a sick technology. Did you mention to them that's it's insecure and proliferates walled IMs? Not that it can convince everyone to avoid it, but some are just unaware how bad it is. Whatsapp developers play on people's ignorance regarding security, as well as on apparent attractiveness of "ease of use" with skipping the registration step (which precisely causes all the security issues). It's a really nasty thing to do. Here is for the reference: http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Account-theft-still-possible-with-latest-WhatsApp-1760639.html http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Account-theft-sti... As a worthy alternative propose your friends to switch to any federated XMPP service.