Much as I loath Facebook I am not going to give up WhatsApp as so many people I communicate use it. Not just family and friends, but loads of Spanish tradespeople and restaurants use it.
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Alternative Messaging Apps
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After consulting with family and friends, we've decided that multinational Internet companies like Facebook, Google, Microsoft pretty much own us and therefore resistance is futile, to quote the Borg.
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A bit more information on this 'merger'.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kateoflahe ... hat-to-do/
Whatsapp is history on all of our mobiles and Facebook, Instagram etc never have been installed. If anyone wants to contact my wife or me they have to install a non-Facebook, non-Google alternative otherwise hard luck.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kateoflahe ... hat-to-do/
Whatsapp is history on all of our mobiles and Facebook, Instagram etc never have been installed. If anyone wants to contact my wife or me they have to install a non-Facebook, non-Google alternative otherwise hard luck.
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And you think that will be any better ?
I think with all the publicity there has been about Facebook selling data, etc, and how monitored and checked they now are, I think you would be far safer using Whatsapp then using some 3rd party app, that will not have the same level of regulation.
I am not on facebook or messenger, only on Whatsapp, so dont think their integration changes would affect me at all.
I think with all the publicity there has been about Facebook selling data, etc, and how monitored and checked they now are, I think you would be far safer using Whatsapp then using some 3rd party app, that will not have the same level of regulation.
I am not on facebook or messenger, only on Whatsapp, so dont think their integration changes would affect me at all.
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I see that Telegraph one of the alternatives suggested in the Forbes article has got a secuity issue with one of its features
Really, if you want to be 100% safe from hacking, viruss and malware.....the only option is to get rid of all your phones, tablets and computers
Really, if you want to be 100% safe from hacking, viruss and malware.....the only option is to get rid of all your phones, tablets and computers
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If you dont add your mobile number to your f.book account then it has no connection to whatsapp etc anyway
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