Comment by chistev

2 days ago

> I keep trying to convince people not to use Instagram, WhatsApp, Facebook, Twitter/X,

I'm with you, but WhatsApp is tough. How do you keep in touch?

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the_other  2 days ago

I left Insta the day FB bought it; closed my FB, twitter, and Google accounts a couple of years later; WA was the hardest to leave, I'll grant. Since I left, I've used: phone; email; Signal; Telegram; letters; post cards; meeting up in person; sms; Mastodon; tried a couple of crypto chats. There are so many options it's not worth worrying about.

In the cases of special interest groups (think school/club/street/building groups), I just miss out, or ask for updates when I meet people. I am a bit out of the loop sometimes. No-one's died as a result of my leaving. When someone did actually die that I needed to know about, I got a phone call.

Honestly... just leave. Just leave. It's not worth your time worrying about these kind of "what ifs".

  • the_af  2 days ago

    How about close friends who live on the other side of the world?

    Telegram and Signal are, to me, about as trustworthy as WhatsApp. Well, actually, nobody really uses Signal, and Telegram is about the same as WhatsApp so who cares.

    Waiting to meet my friends once every 1-2 years is not enough. I want to chat daily with them, because they are my close friends.

    Daily telephone conversations with a group of them? Nope. Snail mail? It doesn't work for daily conversation.

    So WhatsApp it is!