Instead, I will use Threema and Signal.”On New Year’s Eve, I closed my WhatsApp account and deleted the app from my phone. A few clicks later, I’d left all my family, friend and work groups, the school groups of my children and all my individual contacts. Facebook Twitter Pinterest I checked my phone less – which meant I missed out on what was happening in my kids’ school groups. I had to continually ask my wife about discussions in our kids’ school groups. I knew that in Europe Facebook had been asked to “pause” the data sharing from WhatsApp.

Source: The Guardian February 05, 2018 07:03 UTC