Let’s start with the basic question..!
CAN YOU QUIT WHATSAPP..?
Well I am already using Telegram heavily for more than 5 years for personal and professional purposes, and of course downloaded SIGNAL yesterday just on the FOMO. But make no mistake i am not quitting WhatsApp, neither are 90% of the users. The reasons are as below.
1. You won’t find your CIRCLE in other platforms.
Yes while you are tech savvy and ready to embrace new things, your friends, relatives are not. Soon you will find that you are lonely out there and come back crying to WhatsApp.
2. You really don’t need to care about your data
If you have signed up for a Gmail id, started using chrome or using an Android smart phone, you have already lost most of your data privacy. Google knows where you go, what you watch, search and what not. And adding his cousin Facebook to that know all list isn’t hard for you. And I haven’t included the free game apps, graphic apps which requires access to even your shoe size. Now everyone talks about this as a big issue because it involves a big company like Facebook. And don’t worry you are not plotting against the queen and the country.
3. There is no Free meal
Well let’s accept the fact that we were very much aware it will come to something like this. When Gmail started charging for extra storage all of us complained and with much grudge started paying and STILL PAYING but without grudge, we simply forgot. This shall also pass, time heals everything.
4. May be this might work
When you consume free content you know you have to tolerate ads. If you are yet to mature to OTT and still clinging on to TV channels you are definitely fed up with irrelevant ads. Thanks to Remarketing you are already having repeated exposures of the silly furniture you saw on Pepperfry. Now it’s going to get better. More personalised ads, product/service recommondations will be entering your door-ofcourse without your permission. Never mind the intrusion, just thank them for the relevance. Don’t forget to keep your personal conversations decent, you don’t want JK Ansel Ltd., targetting you with tailor made solutions ;-).
BOTTOM LINE
Just chill, the world isn’t going to change. And you aren’t going to quit whatsapp. This is just a precursor to the data driven future world and no matter what you think, you can only checkout any time you like, but you can never leave(Hotel California)-it’s such a lovely place, such a lovely place.