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Very well thought out post and I agree with everything you've said. I still remember the outrage with Whatsapp and how everyone was moving to Signal. Once everything died down, people went back to their old habits and what was familiar to them.
An aunt asked me if she should delete her WhatsApp. I told her no. I knew most of the family would stay on WhatsApp even if they were virtue signaling now. Nowadays the WA group still has 40ish people and the telegram stayed at 20ish and my aunt is on both. I think that's what most people do. They look around, stand up, breathe heavily, their heart rate goes up by 1.5% and they sit back down.
Great analogy yeah. I relate to the WA/TG thing. I was a relatively early adopter of Telegram and have seen multiple waves of people saying "fuck WA this was the final straw!!" with whatever mildly annoying update dropped. Then after about 2 weeks barely anything changed because, let's be honest, most people don't want to move to another messaging platform (it only works if everyone does it).
There's a positive side to this phenomenon. For people like me that don't like trends or people that engage in trends, having a trendy app helps filter those people out. I don't have WhatsApp because of some philosophical value regarding the company. I don't have it because I don't want to interact with the people that use it. It's great! The moment someone asks me for my WA, I say I don't have one and note that I probably won't be friends with that person. I also don't want to be on long running 40+ members chat groups. That's way too much meaningless information for me to process.