For 1 reason: I do not want Facebook to have a complete graph of my real life.

To the uninitiated ones, Facebook is already profiling all its users, from your hobbies, preferences, lifestyle, stage of life, to websites you have visited. And I always have a strong belief that, if there is to be one company providing street stranger identity recognition app for the public, Facebook already has the most complete facial data to do that. Imagine pointing your phone camera at someone’s face, and it will suggest to you this person’s identity.

Now with WhatsApp acquisition, Facebook can even join both data sources, and derive information of your most contacted people in real-life. See, there is always a distinction between the internet life and real-life network. The people that you chat with on Facebook, may not be the people you are keeping in touch on daily basis in real-life. But with WhatsApp, Facebook can now understand our real-life social network, much better, and more accurately too.

For the above-described reason, my primary messaging platform with family members has always been LINE. For colleagues and friends I’m chatting with on daily basis, I would like to switch over these conversations to Telegram.

But why Telegram?

Messaging app isn’t new. There are plenty of other options to choose from. But most of these messaging apps are way too feature-rich, to the extend simplicity is sacrificed at the expense of user experience.

For your record, I dislike Google Talk too. I have it signed-out from my Android phone at all time, unless a Hangout session is scheduled in advance.

Telegram, being a complete copy-cat of WhatsApp in terms of usability and user experience, fits my requirement bill! I think, this is the reason why Telegram is getting 4-5 million new signups daily, on the past few days.

Give it a try, if you have not.