The disaster of WhatsApp
@allknowing (153530)
India
November 19, 2023 11:48pm CST
I have chosen not to enable WhatsApp and the reasons are several. With the forward facility, your group/s will keep sending your forwards whether you are interested in them or not and sometimes what you would send comes back to you.
One spends time deleting what is received as the memory gets loaded - time spent on an activity that is not warranted.
Since I do not have the facility of WhatsApp important information that would normally be conveyed through a phone call is sent through WhatsApp. My neighbour died and I was not aware of it.
There will be many like me who have opted out of having a WhatsApp connection and their plight would be the same as mine
What is your opinion about WhatsApp?
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7 responses
@TraveOnWorld (851)
• Georgia
20 Nov 23
Our families prefer us to use WhatsApp because it is of course much cheaper and easier for international calls, else I would not use it at all. Also in some places you can barely do business without WhatsApp so for some things it is now almost required. It is still miles better than WeChat, now there is a very intrusive total waste of time and phone memory.
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@allknowing (153530)
• India
20 Nov 23
I use Face Boom Messenger for International calls and they are free.
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@allknowing (153530)
• India
20 Nov 23
I use FB Messenger to talk to anyone. I do not need WhatsApp for that.
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@RebeccasFarm (91297)
• United States
20 Nov 23
I have never used it..for some reason scammers have always invited me..I never accepted.
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@allknowing (153530)
• India
20 Nov 23
It is OK for those who have time to chat with friends and family as calls there are free.
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@RebeccasFarm (91297)
• United States
21 Nov 23
@allknowing Oh I see that is what the draw is
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@Fleura (35031)
• United Kingdom
20 Nov 23
We started using it during lockdown when a group was set up for our road in case people needed help. We have stuck with it since because it has been useful occasionally. It doesn't get used much so it isn't a big drain.
I wasn't keen on signing up because it also belongs to Facebook, which I have always avoided.
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@allknowing (153530)
• India
20 Nov 23
One does not have to be in a group to receive forward messages and that is where I feel memory gets loaded and one has to spend time deleting them Also we may not be interested to read those forwards and also we may have already come across them elsewhere.
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@Fleura (35031)
• United Kingdom
20 Nov 23
@allknowing No doubt you are right. The same thing could happen with any kind of messaging service I guess. I'm just lucky I don't have a lot of contacts who want to keep forwarding things (none, really).
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@allknowing (153530)
• India
20 Nov 23
Many are obsessed with it. As they get free calls. We get free calls even when we use FB messenger.
