I personally can understand how WhatsApp can get out of hand, but do feel it is within the control of the user. I’m part of a group that posts videos sometimes. I can choose whether or not I actually want to download and view the video. The preview is blurry, but you can ask the person who put it up what it is. With multimedia text messaging you can do the same, but the advantage/disadvantage of WhatsApp is first of all how smoothly it works, second of all how groups work. In a group text any member of the group can add other members. On WhatsApp only the group owner can add others to the group. I can send voice messages over multimedia text as well. My picture is not a picture of me- none of my friends actually put a picture of themselves. I will probably change it once I find it boring (which will probably take several months). I treat it the same as my profile photo for my email. My status actually gets changed in my email account but I have never changed it on my WhatsApp.
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