So here’s the thing, every time I try to move away from Facebook messenger I run into the same problem, nobody else in my friends or family actually want to use a secure, private messenger app like signal or telegram, my wife, my parents, my in-laws, my friends they’re ALL on Facebook and they will never take signal seriously enough to actually use it, it really bums me out that there are these far superior options but without anyone else using them they’re pointless…

Anyway what apps do you use to stay in touch with people?

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    1 year ago

    I’m not on Facebook, so don’t use Messenger. I communicate with 90% of my friends and family using WhatsApp.

    I would like to use Signal, but have the same problem as you - More than 90% of my friends and family don’t use Signal unfortunately.

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      1 year ago

      I got my brother to move to signal after Whatsapp was bought and luckily he was able to start the chain reaction moving all our friends even my parents to signal

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        1 year ago

        That’s great! I wish that happened with me. I got my parents on it, but others were not willing to try it out. In the end, pretty much everyone I knew stuck with WhatsApp, and we’re still there.