Buying WhatsApp on Facebook It has left many of us with a hole in instant messaging. I do not think that any of us are exclusive of a service, but let's see what we can have as an option, in case you had not thought about how alternative.
What is important to establish in the first place is that WhatsApp I do not think will change much in the short and medium term, since it is a profitable service. In addition, according to statements by the WhatsApp team, the application will remain independent and autonomous, it will not turn into Facebook Messenger or vice versa.
If still, within your principles is to avoid Facebook or you are simply looking for alternatives, here are a few very good ones.
Apple iMessage
It is a service that is integrated directly into the iPhone and that can also be managed from OS X. Its strengths are its compatibility with different types of media, including photos, videos, audio, location, contact cards, etc. You can check all its characteristics in the Apple page.
You have status indicators and you can send and receive messages through the number of phone or email. Although it has a big drawback, it only works between iOS devices.
Google Hangouts
Google Hangouts gathers a lots of options for instant messaging, especially for groups. Hangouts supports text, photos, and videos, as well as audio and video calls. Group video conferencing is the best, and your messaging group provides the status of the message.
Works on iOS, Android, and most web browsers. However, there is no app for Windows Phone or BlackBerry. More information on the Google Hangouts page.
BlackBerry Messenger (BBM)
BBM is the great father of mobile messaging, pioneered the state of reading and has continually been at the forefront with features like groups, voice and video calling, and most recently, channels.
Recientemente they have expanded services for both iPhone and Android. All the info in the BBM website.
Telegram Messenger
Telegram is a messaging application focused on the speed and fullfilment of security requirements. It's super fast, simple, and free. Has his app for OS X and it is the one that is gaining more market share. You can create chat groups with up to 200 people, so you can connect with everyone at the same time.
Also, you can share videos up to 1GB, send images and forward any multimedia file you receive instantly. All your messages are in the cloud, so you can access them from any of your devices.
Microsoft Skype
As an audio service and even video calls, nothing has proven to be more robust and resistant than Skype. It has native applications for iPhone, iPad, Mac, Android, BlackBerry, Windows Phone and Windows. In addition to voice and video calls, they have the instant messaging with photographic support.
If you need universal messaging, and synchronization options are not a priority, your solution is Skype or Whatsapp.
Kik Messenger
Si you don't want a large corporation involved with your messaging program instant, then this is your alternative. It works on the iOS, Android, BlackBerry and Windows Phone systems, and it works with all the types of content that is expected.
100 million people are users of Kik, the messaging program for smartphones with integrated browser. Your Kik username, and not your phone number, is your Kik ID, so you absolutely control who you talk to.
Line, WeChat, GroupMe and other options
There are other very popular instant messaging services in Asia, such as Line in Japan, and WeChat in China. Unless you live there, what you have to take into account is the system that your environment uses or classify your contacts based on the app they use. A summary of these options could be:
If you have a app you want to add to this list, you are more than welcome.
You have left the best, viber.
It is true, but it has not been unintentionally, it is in the process of being sold and this economic instability usually suggests movements that, being alien to me, I have not wanted to risk and recommend, but you are right, it is a good alternative.
Thanks for adding it !!
How sad you are with the anti-whatsapp campaign !!! In the end, we will have to have 500 messaging apps installed on our devices to be able to talk to all of our contacts !!! His is one that everyone has and not so much disintegration !!! Whatsapp is great !!! I have it since it came out and despite some logical service cuts like yesterday's it is the best messaging app no matter how much you insist on trying to prove otherwise !!!
Nobody denies WhatsApp, we deny what Facebook will do with it. At the moment it will have all the telephone numbers and data of your mobile at its disposal to send you the advertising it wants, both of itself and interested.
"We deny what facebook will do with her"
And how do you know what Facebook is going to do with her ???
If everything is mere speculation hahaha
I use Tuenti chat. You do not need to be from Tuenti mobile to use it and at least I am calm that it complies with Spanish legislation.
Great fact Elena, I'll install it to see how it works.
Thanks for adding it to the list !!
The telegram thing is not understood, Line is months ahead and it is treated fatally, by the end of the year there will be 200 apps, and that each one uses the one they want, there will come a time when one company with another will merge their contacts and so everyone who uses what they want, monopolies no thanks.
WhatsApp, we only use it because other people do not want to change, and leaving aside the purchase of Facebook and the security problem that it entails, the problem with WhatsApp is its security, but ordinary people are not interested at all.
Definitely in my humble LINE it is very good, but many people are lazy to install it because it already has WhatsApp. LINE is cross-platform: iOS, Android, WP, Windows 7-8 and Mac, you can make VoIP calls like Facetime and Skype or video calls, the messaging service works very well, besides that the decals / stickers are good parents / cool / cool .
However with yesterday's crash, I think everyone went to Telegram. This service would have done very well, if it hadn't collapsed, they never expected so many new registrations. The good thing about Tlegram is that it encrypts messages.
Skype was good, but only for VoIP calls, on the chat issue it really sucked and was very very heavy, on most platforms.
I think LINE is a very good app, but I think that in the end, people will continue to use WhatsApp or get tired and switch to Telegram.
The option for all users I think is telegram, it is not to advertise it, it is that in my opinion there is no other service that generates greater confidence in security and this applies not only to Europe but to the whole world, thanks for my part to the double standards of Zukerberg (or whatever you write) and the double standard of the United States of spying and defending freedom at the same time I at least switched from Facebook to Instagram and WhatsApp to Telegram, the interesting thing is that there will always be options to do not depend solely on these octopuses.
The best app is Kakao Talk. You have more options and use less battery.
The worst of WhatsApp without a doubt not being able to use it from several devices simultaneously and not having a PC version, I still do not understand that philosophy of having to be tied to a SIM card.
Line, has a version for PC that you can use simultaneously with your smartphone, great point for them, what a pity that you cannot use it on the smartphone and on the tablet, if you put one in it forces you to unlink the other, another incomprehensible error.
FaceBook Messenger, perfect in this sense, you can use it on your smartphone, on the PC, on the tablet (that if, in IOS I don't understand why there is no specific version for Ipad and you have to install the version for IPhone or use it from the Facebook app with a considerable increase in data traffic), another separate issue is what they say about what Facebook does or does not do with your data, but I don't trust any of that.
Skype along with Facebook I think is the only one that meets all this, SmartPhone, Tablet, PC. The downside is that hardly anyone uses it.
Anyway, there is no perfect one.