a post on twitter.com

@jackyalcine The hardest "Meta" app to ditch for me and my family will be WhatsApp - it's the only thing my parents in law are accepting right now as chat app. We have about 7GB worth of picture files in our family group. I backed these up, but still will be hard to replace with anything else.
↑ byJohan BovéJohan Bové • posted • archived copy • current

Yeah, after successfully getting a good chunk of my family off of it—it looks like people have migrated back. Network effects are like mental shackles for people nowadays, and it's very hard to break.