People should stop using Facebook products.
Without whatsapp I would essentially be losing contact with my family and a ton of friends and colleagues. And some businesses even use it. Do I want to, no. Have I got some people on signal, yes. But there simply isnt a way for me to cut it out of my life unfortunately.
I ripped the bandaid off when Facebook bought WhatsApp. I told all my contacts and the ones I actually talked to were willing to install Signal, even my grandparents.
Same. I quit whatsapp the day after facebook bought it. Switched to signal and never looked back. The few people I talked with on whatsapp moved too.
I tried but failed, people are so reliant on it that I couldn’t interest people enough and gradually even some people who moved over, drifted back.
Yeah it’s not easy to get people to care, and even harder to get them to move from something they’re familiar with.
The main motivation for me was getting off WhatsApp, so anyone who refused to get Signal just has to deal with SMS now.
Come on, just do it. Do it ! I have never had Whatsapp installed, ever ! Never had an issue staying in touch with my family, friends and doing business and chores.
Good for you.
I stopped. Anyone who wanted to keep in touch with me was given other methods of doing that. Anyone else who couldn’t be bothered to spend 20 extra seconds? Not worth having in my life.
Happy that worked for you but doing so would have cut a huge social part of my life away, its more than just 1:1 messaging stuff.
Can’t they send a ordinary text message to your phone number?
They can but that instantly excludes me from casual day to day things like my family group chat or more spur of the moment messaging - plans here heavily favour data these days over texts - honestly the only texts i get these days are automated services. I just have no desire to be so isolated from friends and family
If they won’t use signal or similar then they’re kind of shitty, but sometimes with friends and family that’s how it is.
Friends don’t let friends use Meta AI app
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It’s not embarrassing to still be using any Meta product?
It’s like being worried because you recognized the guy in front of you at the checkout line at the dildo emporium as your priest…
It would be awkward if he turns around, but he’s got a shopping cart of dildos too, how is he gonna judge?
You’re fooling yourself if you think Lemmy/mbin content isn’t getting scraped and thrown into LLMs. There’s nothing stopping it and they’re not huge on consent.
All 3 people that both use Meta AI and also have friends are mortified.
In order to find out, they’d have to also be using Meta, which is embarrassing enough in itself so they shouldn’t be talking.
Jokes on you! My friends found out much more embarrassing stuff about me
If your friends are embarrassed by the apps you choose to use, maybe it’s time to find better friends
