[roadbeats]

You can stay in touch with relatives via mobile phone. You can text them and ask how they do. Personally, I created a Whatsapp group for my extended family. Some of them don't use Facebook by the way.

It doesn't make any sense to complain about Facebook's business model and also not want to sacrifice a worthless personal account noone cares about.

We choose what we use and they choose how they make money. You can expect them to be ethical but they have no responsibilities to meet your expectations, as they have never promised to be a platform that respects privacy.

[whoisjuan]

"I created a Whatsapp group for my extended family"... You're just changing one poison for another one. Don't forget who owns Whatsapp.

[krrrh]

It’s not perfect to still be sharing your social graph, but at least chats are e2e encrypted by default.

[roadbeats]

I own Whatsapp. Do you know why? Because I own my contact list. I can migrate my whole family to Telegram or Signal tomorrow. Currently it's not bothering me.

[gotofritz]

LOL, and who owns WhatsApp /facepalm

I don't like the "always on" part of WhatsApp and the like. I like FB because I can go on when I fell like. Who are you to tell me what I should use?