Please no more WhatsApp

privacy, signal, whatsapp, gdpr

Someone drops a link in a chat: “I made a WhatsApp group for this, join here.” A school project, a street party, a daycare parents exchange, yet another neighbourhood initiative. Within a minute fifteen people are in, photos are flowing, and the thing basically organizes itself. I get it. WhatsApp is super easy. You install it once, it finds everyone you know, and it removes almost all the friction of getting a group of people talking.