Iāve posted this in Romanian, but realized an English version would be better here on micro.blogā¦
So Iāve decided to leave WhatsApp behind and close my account. And I switched to Signal. I was already on Telegram, but Signal is way better from a privacy point of viewā¦

Iāve tried convincing my friends and family. Some accepted, some didnāt. But, as Iāve said to them, weāre free to choose what we want in life.
Those who didnāt want to leave told me I was paranoid, that Facebook is not the bad guy, that they donāt care because they have nothing to hide, etc.
I know the current changes to the privacy policy werenāt really that important (weāre mostly clarifications actually) and that Facebook already has everything about me at this moment. I know this, and itās easy to see it for yourself. Just export WhatsApp data, and youāll see all the infos they have. But I donāt want to be their data milking cow anymore. My data is my data (and yeah, I know: if something itās free, youāre the product).
Besides, Facebook is known for lying a lot and not just lately⦠this ābugā made me laugh, or if you have the time you can take a look at this timeline of some of Facebookās privacy issues
I donāt want a future built on all the data that we freely and stupidly gave to all these companies. A future where they have all of our data, and theyāll be able to know what our next step will be. I donāt want this.
If I can take a step in a different direction Iāll do it. So this is what Iām doing now.
I donāt want my kids to be āsketchedā with the help of the data Iāll leave behind. They need to be themselves. Thatās why I never posted, and Iāll never be posting photos of my daughter online - her online identity must be build by herself and not by her parents.
Final note: Facebook is not the only bad guy here⦠theyāre just one of them. The internet is ruled by GAFAM and they have the power. We gave it to themā¦