Forget Facebook: Here are six other apps for staying in touch with friends
You can use plenty of other apps, some with encryption and a better history of keeping user data private
By Todd Haselton
If you’re tired of Facebook, or — like me — you have decided you don’t trust the company with your private data any longer, there are plenty of other ways to stay in touch with friends.
Here are six other ways to talk and keep your friends in the loop on apps that Facebook doesn’t own. (That means Instagram and WhatsApp are not in here, as Facebook owns both apps.)
Signal
Signal is an app I recommended recently in a guide on how to chat with encryption . It lets you talk privately with friends in a manner that’s much more secure than other options. End-to-end encryption means it’s harder for anyone to snoop on your conversations. It also has features that allow chats to delete themselves after a predetermined amount of time.