To me, the overarching topic here is trust. Who do you trust with you private stuff?
On the left corner, Whatsapp. Owned by a company who has been caught red-handed with plenty of shady stuff. From accepting money to manipulate democracies, to exploiting the human brain (young and old) to catapult their product FB is a live testament of what being a greedy, evil corporation really means.
On right corner, Telegram. As far as I know, they have been caught in zero shady enterprises. Their discourse seem a bit cocky and preachy, but honestly I couldn't agree more with their principles and their responses to criticism seem logic.
My choice is Telegram, thank you very much!
There is still Signal, but less than a quarter of my contacts are there. To me it smells a bit of G+... great idea and features, but low adoption which makes the product irrelevant.
