You’ve decided to delete Facebook but what will you replace it with?
by Stuart Dredge from Technology | The Guardian on (#3KMBF)
After the Cambridge Analytica data-breach row many users are looking to switch their social media accounts. What sites and apps could prove an option?
For too many people considering leaping aboard the #DeleteFacebook bandwagon, the answer is simple: switch your photo and video sharing to Instagram and your messaging to WhatsApp. But what many do not realise is that both of those apps are owned by Facebook - since September 2012 and October 2014 respectively.
It is a mark of the company's dominance of the social media landscape - Facebook has 2.13 billion monthly active users, WhatsApp 1.5 billion and Instagram 800 million - that finding a single alternative is difficult.
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