Simple Things You Can Do to Increase Your Protection as a Facebook user

It is always better to be cautious than regret later

There is a pandemonium brewing on the purported sharing of data between WhatsApp and Facebook in recent past days. The statement made by WhatsApp about a specific date after which they would share all data with Facebook was an incomplete message revealed without fully thinking through the consequences.

What followed was sheer chaos. Especially in markets like India, where WhatsApp has over 400 mil users. People started downloading alternate messaging apps and stopped or considered stopping the usage of Facebook. This abrupt mass behavior was also triggered by a tweet by Elon Musk, that said something about Signal being a better messaging application.

Signal app downloads skyrocketed with 7.1 mil app downloads in the next 7 days (compared to about 15k downloads in the previous 7 days) and WhatsApp downloads fell 30%. There was noticeable chaos amongst both business users as well as students and homemakers and concerns about losing passwords, possibly breach in their social media accounts, and other unnecessary things.

This article is not about which of the two is a better messaging app. It is also not getting into technicalities about how much data WhatsApp should share with Facebook. This piece is about a few things you can do to keep yourself safe when you use Facebook.

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