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by rNULLED
1132 days ago
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hahahah why do you want whatsapp to disappear? is the concept of people being able to talk on groups over the internet so bad? or maybe it’s the ad network that whatsapp is related to. ads are just information telling you a product exists. is this bad? or maybe your gripe is against social media causing mental health issues. maybe the information that your neighbor is better off than you are is inherently dangerous? who says this problem wouldn’t exist without social media? disclosure i work for meta but i don’t want to believe that i work on a bad product. |
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As a replacement for working SMS group chat in a group that includes people with android phones whatsapp is serviceable especially if the conversations are relatively ephemeral (eg let’s coordinate between no more than about 4 people to meet up at some event). THe problem I have with it is generally that it expands beyond that to become very long-lived threads and/or large groups without product features to support that. So it becomes “slack with a lobotomy”.
Also I dislike whatsapp because people can’t keep themselves on topic and the product sucks if people go off topic and start forking the conversation. This gets worse and worse as the chat goes on and in particular if there are more than a very small number of people in the chat. Case in point: I am literally on a whatsapp group now trying to organize a funeral and one of the people is cracking jokes and talking about one of their coworker’s neouroses. It’s really hard and annoying to go back skipping reams and reams of junk to find the 3 or 4 facts I actually need from the conversation.