FB messenger is just bad. Forget the spying, at it’s base it is just bad featurleas software. Literally ICQ was better software.

No? Signal doesn’t need to have backdoors, your phone has plenty of them.

I didn’t know that, but I am unsuprised. I think the idea of using something like signal is at least prevents blatantly dragnet surveillance by everyone and their uncle. The CIA is unlikely to sell info to your landlord or employer for example.

As someone else suggested, there is little hope of privacy on a third party app. And frankly, so much of the tech itself is directly implicated with the military industrial complex that you are probably fucked anyway. If you have information you want to stay private, you are better off never letting it come in contact with the internet at all.

for a lot of people, nothing is more enticing than doing nothing :( 90% of my communication with friends is on a FB service (other 10% on snapchat)

Like what? The 1.5gb file transfer seems nice, but I couldn’t find anything else of note.