I entered the privacy world/rabbithole a few months ago, and after reading a lot about various topics in this world, I felt it was the time to start using signal to replace whatsapp (and maybe also switching from iOS to GOS in the future). Here’s the issue, which I found frequently on this forum to…

In my experience you don’t even have to get into get into the privacy stuff too much when explaining your reasoning to people. If you use Android it’s usually enough to say you want better texting features and don’t like Facebook so don’t want to use WhatsApp or Instagram, and everyone you talk with…

I found it a lot easier to get people over when I switched to android and I used it as an excuse. It was also a good excuse for me to push harder because I didn’t have to mediocrity of iMessage to fall back on. One of my favorite things about Signal over iMessage—besides the obvious metadata, secur…

I tell people that I’m trying to get away from Big Tech, and Signal is owned by a non-profit foundation.

Sell them not on privacy but shiny features of signal, “just family cross platform chats”, WhatsApp is a mess with all the companies now using its business API

I find you have to personalise your process. Family: tell them about how most scam text attacks happen through WhatsApp and you are worried it might happen to them. Load signal for them, verify your accounts and set up a family chat. Now not only do they speak to you through it they may speak to ea…

This is going to sound weird but raise your social capital. Make yourself useful and needed amongst your friends and family. Become an interesting person by following your passions. I know it sounds silly, but you’d be surprised how much these factors influence your ability to convert people. Two p…

Tell Them Govt is Spying on them, Explain How WhatsApp is NOT secure. How Data Is Being leaked to Govt by META APPS, How Govt Spy using Meta Apps FACEBOOK, WhatsApp, Instagram. MOST IMPORTANT WHY SIGNAL CAN RESCUE THEM AS WELL.

In my view, it’s always a bad way to approach this WHILE YELLING AT THEM ABOUT ESOTERIC TOPICS

Locally speaking, WhatsApp is almost universal. Even among the elderly. Even businesses are starting to preference it over SMS. I’ve drastically changed how I deal with WhatsApp. But getting rid of it entirely isn’t necessarily realistic between dealing with family members that don’t know how to …

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