Whatsapp using all kinds of media to reach users and assure them their data is safe! Only business accounts affected and the too is optional but like i said the average user does make an effort to read all this and change the settings! 1/n @ProfSomashekhar @HaryaxPathak

A lot of whatsapp business accounts are by small businesses on which some personal transactional notes and documents are still shared. Email was preferred before all this but that too wasn’t safe and shared data with 3rd party marketing sites for ads, 2/n

People switched to messaging apps post end to end encryption and just because of the ease of use! Its instantaneous and gets the job done. Some of the best messaging apps (based on UI and features) share a lot of user data but still people use them because 3/n

They like the interface. Apps like signal fall behind in these areas and therefore its difficult to convince users to migrate even if the know about privacy issues on their favored ones! There are a lot of messaging apps...Whatapp, viber, wechat, kik, messenger, line, 4/n

Telegram, signal, wire, threema, wickr me, silence, Instagram, allo, etc... users dont know about most of them just because they are not marketed as efficiently as whatsapp and because big tech firms do not own them. End.