WhatsApp is infuriating. I&#x27;ve managed to get the people I chat with to move to Signal or Telegram (seems a bit more friendly). But there&#x27;s tons of resistance. My 9-yr-old doesn&#x27;t seem to care about the privacy implications of sending all your writing (and photos) to Facebook, forever. My 7-yr-old does care, and expressed surprise that it was even legal to &quot;take their secrets&quot; and &quot;I&#x27;d call the police on Facebook.&quot; (Her words.)<p>But I suppose if other parents don&#x27;t join in (shit most of them use WhatsApp themselves), what hope do their kids have? And I don&#x27;t want to get my daughter ostracized so being heavy handed seems like a long-term losing strategy.<p>Doesn&#x27;t help that this is in a 3rd world Central American country and that vile, anti-net-neutrality zero-rating is in effect for FB stuff. You can basically pick up any phone, and WhatsApp will work, even if nothing else[1] does. Apart from the cost of the phone, there&#x27;s no cost, at all, as far as I can see.<p>1: Including emergency, as this country hasn&#x27;t really gotten to that point yet.