After starting out as a hub of meaningful conversations, WhatsApp has now devolved into a digital billboard filled with spam messages and unnecessary features.
You can thank Facebook / Meta for that. As a FB product it’s one of those things I try to touch as little as possible outside of when I need to talk to someone through it.
I don’t know your life of course, so maybe this won’t work for you. But I had a similar hangup. So I figured who it was really important to keep in contact with, made sure I had a way to do so (phone numbers, usually). Then deleted my account.
You can thank Facebook / Meta for that. As a FB product it’s one of those things I try to touch as little as possible outside of when I need to talk to someone through it.
I don’t know your life of course, so maybe this won’t work for you. But I had a similar hangup. So I figured who it was really important to keep in contact with, made sure I had a way to do so (phone numbers, usually). Then deleted my account.
Everyone has voice, sms, and e-mail. If they can’t contact me by one of those it’s their problem.