Stop Using Whatsapp and start using Blockchain chat apps

Stop using Whatsapp right now!!!!

Imagine if there is an invisible person who knows everything about you from your age to your children's preferred meal, and he records everything about you from texting, video calls, movements, your contacts list, your geographical location and more.

Can you imagine being in such a situation?

well if you are using Whatsapp then you are in that situation.
A lot of Whatsapp users do not know how does this free app sustain itself. So if you are one of those people, please continue reading till the end.

In the last 10 years, Big Data analytics became one of the biggest profitable businesses in the world, especially Behavioral Analytics.

Behavioral Analytics basically means the analysis of online users actions, such as gaming, social media, e-commerce, communications and more. This type of analysis or Spying is very profitable for businesses because it gives them insights into what you are thinking about and what your future plans are which makes it easy for them to sell you the things that you may be interested in.

Until now everything seems positive and not that bad, but imagine if your personal data was used by your government to suppress you and take your freedom of speech. Well, that actually happened in many dictatorships in third world countries, and it may be also happening in other forms in developed countries too.
Another risk many people do not talk about is terrorist attacks. Many terrorist organisations used data collected from big social media platforms such as Whatsapp and Facebook to precisely launch their attacks.

But what is the solution?

Should we stop using social media and messaging apps at all?
Of course, we can not because these apps are an important part of our lives; however, we can eliminate the risk of our data being collected and distributed to other parties which we do not know about by using Blockchain messaging apps and social media.
Below I will go through a list of the most secure, trustworthy and known block-chain messaging apps.

1. Dust
Dust is a secure messaging app Co-Founded by Mark Cuban. This application gives you complete control over your personal information, in contrast with other messaging apps, trust takes security as its first priority; some of Dust's features are:
• Auto deletion of messages after 24 hours.
• Detects and notify you if a screenshot is taken.
• Unsend/ Delete any message any time.
2. Sense.chat
Sense.Chat allows anyone with a new or existing EOS account to chat, earn and discover tokens while connecting in private text, audio, and video chats. All of your 1-to-1 conversations are encrypted and completely private. Some of Sense.Chat's features are:
• Chat privately with no phone number or email required.
• View and manage tokens and activity in your wallet.
• Chat with communities in public channels.
• Get rewarded for your messages in public channels.
3. E-chat
e-Chat is a free decentralized messenger that allows you to communicate and send messages (text, voice) and make calls to your friends, create posts and monetize content. Thanks to the blockchain technology, e-Chat ensures the security of your personal information and gives access to a built-in payment system. Some of E-chat's features are:
• Its internal currency(ECHT) that can be earned by users within the messenger.
• Store your ECHT and check the transactions history.
• sync your contacts list.
• monetize your content(Pictures & Videos) with the help of likes.
4. Sylo
Sylo is a Smart Wallet designed to keep your assets, your contacts and your conversations all in one place. Keep your privacy intact while you communicate, store, share and spend from the safety of a wallet address. Only you have the key - it's on your terms. Some of Sylo's features are:
• Send and receive digital currencies, assets or media while you chat.
• Private messaging and audio/video calling.
• Group conversations and global payments.
• Send digital currencies anywhere in the world.
• Search and add any ERC20 token.
• Create and add your own custom tokens.
• Supports multiple blockchains.
5. Status
Status is an open-source, Ethereum-based app that gives you the power to chat, transact, and access a revolutionary world of DApps from your Android device. Status is currently in beta testing, but it's worth trying Some of Sylo's features are:
• Encrypted Messaging: built on top of the Whisper protocol, enabling decentralized one-on-one, group chats, and social payments.
• Browse DApps: seamlessly interact with the emerging ecosystem of DApps using Status' Web 3.0 browser.
• Ether Wallet: a 'default' wallet, to provide ETH storage, send/receive transaction, a QR reader, and transaction logs.

I hope that this article was enough to convince you to stop using WhatsApp. If you have experienced any bad or weird situation using Whatsapp, please consider sharing it with us so that we can learn from each other, and if you know about any other good Blockchain-based messaging apps please let us know about it in the comments below.