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Because your coworkers and your inlaws are still using it. And you phone company only posts their updates on xitter these days. It's the same reasons why your still using whatsapp.
I personally don't agree with these reasons, but they're valid.
Nothing would make me happier than not having to use WhatsApp. Instead, I had to bend over backwards to get WhatsApp on a separate device entirely after they flagged and banned my account (multiple times over the course of a month) for random reasons (hackers trying to hack my account for 6 months straight is my guess as to why I got flagged) and wouldn't let me log back in with my GrapheneOS phone, and if I ever forget to check that other phone for more than 2 weeks, I get logged out of all my companion devices and lose all my stickers and some recent chat history.
I floated the idea to my contacts of possibly not being able to come back to WhatsApp, they all essentially said I should just buy a new phone (have had my pixel for like a year) and get a new phone number (have had my number for 20 years). My own family scoffed at the idea of using something other than WhatsApp at all to talk to me.
So yeah. Fuck WhatsApp, absolutely fuuuuuuuck Meta, but we're all literally doing the best we can given the situation we're in.
Let's agree to disagree. My family knows I love them, and they know I'm fucking paranoid. So their options were limited, either insta Signal, or just call me on the phone (jmp.chat number via Cheogram), I got off of the WhatsApp wagon and, while some of them resisted at first, they started to feel left out because they were not part of the signal family group. So, they all still use WhatsApp and they all use Signal now. Same with my friends. Every single one of my oldest friends didn't think about it twice and just installed signal (on ay easier than my family, as expected), and those that didn't happen to be all the acquaintances, not one of them was ever considered a friend by me. And my mental health is so much better because of this.