"I don't want to give Zuckerberg all my information for free, or ever, at all" - is what I've said to people when they ask why I don't have Whatsapp. For the most part, they shrug as if to say "fair enough". By and large, it's become an acceptable reason.
Through the past few years, I've been communicating with my five best friends via Signal. They installed the app and started using it just to stay in touch with me. Like I said - best friends, they did that for me.
But their gesture have been rewarded...! ...with Twitter-thread-style text walls from Yours Truly! About whatever subject is on my mind that night.
From the 70s films of Robert Altman, to the impact of The Stone Roses on 90s British music, to the difference between Baroque and Rococo, to Major League Baseball rule changes, to Bitcoin miners in Xinjiang and Kazakhstan, to Neutrino Cosmic Background Radiation, to good ol' fashioned meme shitposting - surreal memes, recursive memes, dank memes, bone hurting juice... you name it, we got it.
So far, they don't seem to mind it too much. It doesn't happen every day and I gotta feel inspired, as opposed to bored texting.