Latent WhatsApp Anxiety Is A Real Thing And You're Probably Suffering From It

[imagesource: Getty]I’m terribly upset that my Telegram crusade kicked off after the whole WhatsApp privacy debacle. The fact of the matter is, I was moving across regardless. Mainly because of the endless list of benefits Telegram has over WhatsApp, but also very much because of the Latent WhatsApp Anxiety (LWA) I was experiencing.LWA will soon be a globally recognised medical condition that you yourself are more than likely suffering from. It’s linked to the biggest problem you face with WhatsApp, and something I have been appealing to my friends (those who haven’t seen the light) to consider, as I request they only contact me on Telegram.You see, WhatsApp (and Signal, for that matter) is single-device based. In other words, if you lose or break your phone, there is absolutely no way to get to your WhatsApp chats. This is completely unacceptable in the year 2021.Oh, but it’s ‘end-to-end encrypted’? Exactly why is everyone so obsessed with end-to-end encryption? Are you a spy? And then you go and back it all up in the cloud anyway 😆 do me a favour!And if you do have WhatsApp backed up to the cloud (which you do – in iCloud or Google Drive), the…
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