The sad part is that due to Whatsapp, I can't escape my doom because EVERYONE I contact daily uses Whatsapp. I would basically kill myself socially if I wer

The sad part is that due to Whatsapp, I can't escape my doom because EVERYONE I contact daily uses Whatsapp. I would basically kill myself socially if I were to delete Whatsapp. I have been playing around with deleting my whatsapp account (for different reasons) in the last couple of months, but haven't because of everybody uses whatsapp. But I don't share your sentiment. I just used this acquisition as a trigger to actually delete my whatsapp account. And I don't think I'll miss anything really significant (the SNR went done quite a lot lately anyway): I'm still as reachable as I've been before. Maybe I can manage to bring more of my social contacts to actually use an open XMPP client anyway ...