SucukIs it (still) worth trying to switch my family and friends from WhatsApp to Signal? (Read all of it, please.)
This may sound a bit dumb, but eh.... #signal
Tatar_NobilityI was in a similar spot and gave up before starting. This is due to several reasons: 1) My circle of relatives and friends, like yours, neglect their privacy and would not engage with me in a serious conversation regarding it; 2) educational institutions, businesses, organisations and even governmental bodies may rely on WhatsApp for communications; and 3) the two big telecom monopolies offer enticing mobile data deals for using WhatsApp.
While I am not saying you should give up, you should go for modest goals (e.g. converting your close family to signal when chatting together) and eliminate optimistic expectations so you don’t get crushed.
I gave up after about 7 years of trying. The few people I had using it won’t use it anymore since Signal dropped sms. Best I have been able to do now is talk to people with iMessage.
The few people I had using it won’t use it anymore since Signal dropped sms. Best I have been able to do now is talk to people with iMessage.
Well that’s odd, as iOS Signal never supported SMS, and Android phones don’t support iMessage, only SMS.
The family using Signal were on Android. The people on ios refused to ever use anything other than iMessage.
I can talk to them with iMessage as always and the Android people are now sms only after they left Signal. They said it’s too confusing to text on different apps so they dropped down to their default sms.