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by seanhunter
1133 days ago
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I dislike WhatsApp as a product for a few reasons (which I’ll describe below) and also because I keep getting forced to use it by various situations. Eg one place I worked a lot of comms with the founders was on whatsapp. Since then I tried to delete whatsapp but have been dragged back because some family cooperation is organized on whatsapp. 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. |
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