WhatsApp It is on everyone's lips these days after it updated its terms and conditions of use, asking users for permission to share their private data, including the phone number, with the social network Facebook. It is important to remember that the social network with the largest number of users in the world is the owner of the instant messaging service after paying a huge amount of money for some time.
After explaining yesterday how to prevent WhatsApp from sharing our information with Facebook, today we want to show you 6 reasons why we should uninstall WhatsApp and yet we don't.
Our private data may be exposed
No doubt the possibility for WhatsApp to share our private data with Facebook, and with other companies owned by Facebook should be reason enough for all or almost all of us to uninstall the instant messaging application. At the moment it has not been disclosed what the social network wants our phone number or some information about us for, but everything suggests that to send us advertising through messages.
We do not pay a single euro cent to use WhatsApp, but that should not be reason enough to allow ourselves to be invaded by advertising messages, whatever the method. Of course, do not forget that for the moment it is possible to refuse to share personal information with Facebook, although it will be necessary to see how long it takes to be mandatory to share our data.
Voice calls are of very poor quality
Video calls came to WhatsApp as one of the great improvements of the instant messaging service, after they had been available for a while in other services of this type. We all went crazy with this functionality, but Over time they have not improved at all and the quality is very low if we compare it with the voice calls offered by other services. of this type.
The instant messaging service seems focused on other things and voice calls and long-awaited video calls have taken a back seat.
It will soon stop working on some devices
A few weeks ago WhatsApp announced that it would stop supporting some terminals on the market. Among them are, for example, BlackBerry, which was very popular a while ago, although today its market share is practically reduced to zero.
In addition, the instant messaging service will also stop working on some devices with Android operating system, although at the moment you should not worry as this will happen in very old versions. If you still have a device with very old software, be careful and review all the details as you may not have to uninstall it but simply cannot use it.
There are more and more applications of this type, better than WhatsApp
The debate on whether WhatsApp is the best instant messaging service available on the market has been in the limelight for a long time, and today many believe that Telegram o Line by far better than the Facebook owned app.
Not long ago WhatsApp was one of the few instant messaging applications that met the demands of any user. Today the market has a huge number of services of this type, some of which, such as Telegram, have already surpassed WhatsApp in many aspects. To round off it is no longer a utopia to think that our friends can have these applications apart from the most used worldwide.
You have been having deficiencies for a long time
Practically Since WhatsApp began to be available to all users, it has maintained a series of bugs or at least deficiencies that it has not wanted to solve. For example, one of them is that when an image is sent, an image is never sent in the original quality, reducing it to send it without consuming so much data, but irremediably depriving the recipient of having the original photograph.
This is just one of the deficiencies that WhatsApp has, but surely if you compare it with, for example, Telegram, you are capable of getting a few more bugs, which at this point should be inexcusable for a company the size of Facebook.
It is no longer essential
Not too long ago WhatsApp was an absolutely essential application for many people, but with the passage of time it has gone into the background for several reasons. Among them the appearance of an increasing number of applications of this type or the growing use of flat rates offered by mobile phone operators.
WhatsApp begins to lose ground compared to other applications and we are increasingly convinced that it is neither the best nor the only one.
And despite this we do not uninstall it from our devices
With a couple of the reasons that we have shown you in this article, they should be more than enough to uninstall WhatsApp right now, but nevertheless very few dare to take that step. I myself have to admit that I practically no longer use the instant messaging application owned by Facebook, since I use Telegram for my day to day, but I do not take the definitive step of uninstalling it.
Some friends or relatives who do not use other types of services of this type are the main reasons, even though I do not speak with them practically. WhatsApp has managed to enter our lives to stay and no matter how much it does not improve, that it has failures or that it asks us without any shame to share personal data, very few users are able to take the step of uninstalling it forever from our devices.
Have you ever thought about or have you ever uninstalled WhatsApp from your device?. Tell us in the space reserved for comments on this post or through any of the social networks in which we are present.
I uninstalled WhatsApp on one occasion and deleted my account but I had to come back a few days later because the pressure is such that they accused me of being weird and antisocial. I use telegram regularly, my mother and I only use telegram to communicate with each other but no one else of my contacts uses it frequently. It is a pity that we have all closed ourselves so much to one application and alternatives are not tried.
It cost me 0,99 on my iphone. Nothing for free. And I don't uninstall it because most of the family only have this app. And I don't want to stop communicating with them. Only for that!
Well, so that there is a bit of everything, I have prepared (and sent) a "reasoned" farewell message to ALL my contacts.
A surveyor giving his opinion on this. If you do not want your data to be exposed, throw away your cell phones since everything that is connected to the network there are robots copying your information so if you want to go live in a remote place where there is no technology and all your data keep them under a rock. LOL…..