5 Ways to Survive Life Without WhatsApp

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Just recently, during WhatsApp’s outage last month, Telegram’s popularity soared high
with nearly 5 million new subscribers. It topped the free app chart in many countries on
the iTunes store and beat other well-known messaging apps like WhatsApp and Kik.
Its winning points include speed and advanced security measures which has a strong
focus on privacy. Telegram even hold a contest open to anyone who can find a way to
hack into their system, only in an effort to keep improving the app.

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This app not only offers text messaging services but also calls to just about anyone the user
wishes to contact via a working internet connection. Its interface is easy to use and the
design is easy on the eyes as well. Like WhatsApp, it integrates with the user’s phone
contact list.
Since the news of a Japanese e-commerce company planning to acquire Viber last month, it
has been attracting 600,000 new users everyday. CEO of Rakuten Inc Hiroshi Mikitani hopes
to reach 2 billion users by the end of the acquisition.

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Like it or not, Facebook has been growing steadily throughout the years in the social
network scene. It is still considered one of the top dogs in the business and so it is no
wonder that when it launches its own messenger app, it quickly gained attention and usage.
This is separate from the actual Facebook app for users who wish to communicate with their
Facebook contacts in the most efficient manner.
In its last update, a ‘dislike’ button has been added as a sticker which can be downloaded
from the Sticker Store. This popular app is also now available on Windows phones.

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As one of the leading Asian text messaging apps, Line is known for its fun emoticons
or stickers for users. This collection is often updated and just a week ago, it is now
offering cheap calls to cell phone and landline numbers that do not use this
particular app. This is an added bonus for existing users who can already do free
voice calls to one another.

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Founded in 2009, Kik was created by a group of University of Waterloo students. It was aimed
to be easy and to resemble chats on the computer. This is clearly evident in its interface as
well as the use of usernames instead of phone numbers. Like many other similar apps, it also
allows exchange of videos and photos to other users.
One downside to this is the active ‘spam bots’ that target select users believed to be operating
out of somewhere in the United States. Currently, the only way to combat this is to allow the
option to ignore new people under ‘Notifications’.