Sometimes a friend calls me to ask me why I am not responding to his WhatsApp message. So my reply will be “Whatsapp !!! I remember this program, but I stopped using it about a year ago, and I moved to Telegram, and when I think about trying it, I feel as if I am someone who decided to leave Windows 10 and Mac 10.12 and return to using Windows 98. As for why you made this decision, here is the answer.
Important introduction:
There are advantages for every competitor, there are advantages for Android that are not found in iOS and vice versa. There are advantages at BMW that are not found in Chrysler and vice versa. So my decision was not based on the fact that there are no features in WhatsApp that are not found in Telegram. For example, the number of WhatsApp users is 4-5 times the number of Telegram users. Personally, what prevents me from deleting WhatsApp is that there is a "group" of my friends since high school who insist on not downloading Telegram, so I open it from time to time to follow them. WhatsApp also provides voice calling, which is not yet present in Telegram.
But in the end, for me, the benefits of Telegram beat the advantages of WhatsApp by a huge margin, so I moved on. Here are my reasons
Encryption
Two years ago, everyone talked about good news, which is that WhatsApp has become encrypted, which is a good thing, but whoever cares about privacy will know that the strongest encryption is for Telegram. This is not a personal belief, but rather based on security, intelligence and press reports that have spoken that organizations such as "ISIS" rely on Telegram to correspond with their members due to the power of its encryption. Frankly, I did not find any source talking that the WhatsApp encryption is stronger.
Privacy
Encryption is important if you fear security breaches and spying, but what really matters is privacy. In this regard, Telegram offers the following:
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Password protect the application: It's ridiculous that anyone can open your chatting app and see messages. So Telegram enables you to protect the application with a password.
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Delete my accountThere is an option on Telegram to delete your account if you have not used it for a month, 3, 6 months or a year.
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Delete your messageYour message belongs to you. Have you ever thought about this before? So if you send a message to someone, you can choose to delete it from your device as well as their device. Indeed, several times I send a message to someone and then think that it is inappropriate, so I delete it before the other sees it.
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Edit your message: Same as the previous idea. Your message is yours, and accordingly, you can after sending it and even after the other party sees it or modifies it.
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Who is using my accountImagine that you opened WhatsApp Web from a device and forgot it, and now your messages are exposed to those sitting on this device! Telegram gives you the ability to know which devices logged in to your account and when they were last used.
We'll settle for these points and talk about another cool feature that supports secret chats
Secret talks:
You can create a secret conversation with someone to get several advantages, which are:
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Protected messages: Your person cannot copy or forward your message to any other contact.
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Report filmingThe previous protection may make the person speaking to take a screenshot. Of course, this is outside the authority of the application and cannot block the system, but you will be informed that the other party has filmed the conversation.
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Messages for a whileAfter a while, you can choose to self-destruct the messages. Thus, messages are deleted automatically from your device and the other device after a period, and you do not worry about the period starting from a second to a week.
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Do not save anywhere: If you log in to your account from a new device, you will see all the old conversations because they are saved on the company's servers. But you will not find secret conversations because they are not stored anywhere.
Everywhere application
I am mainly an iPad person. Where is the WhatsApp application on the iPad ?! His company is banning him for an unknown reason, and the solution is to use WhatsApp Web or the applications that depend on it. And recently WhatsApp provided an application for Mac and Windows, but they are more like the web version (it is actually a web copy inside an application and it does not provide all the features).
Telegram has an app for everything. There is an application for iPad. If you use Linux and Ubuntu, there is an app for you. Even the Firefox system has an app for it.
Sent files
If you think to send a photo or video to a friend via WhatsApp, this means a loss of quality, as the application reduces the quality significantly. The maximum space allowed for sending videos is 16 MB while the largest public file that can be sent is 100 MB. Do you know what is the maximum size in Telegram 1536 MB. Yes, you can send a 1.5 GB file to Telegram. You can send photos and videos in compressed or in full quality. The choice is yours, not the application.
Talks
I wanted the main point to be the final, which is the final. The most important thing is the conversations themselves, and here are the most prominent advantages of them:
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The stickersYou can download an unlimited number of stickers to make your conversations more fun.
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Pinned postIn group conversations, an important point may be mentioned, such as agreeing on a date for a meeting, for example. We fear that it will disappear and drown in the messages. So you can pin the message to the top of the group chat for everyone to see easily.
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The media: Did you know that there are many media outlets that have established a channel for themselves on Telegram that sends their latest news. The island, for example.
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Open conversations: You can create a specific group and create a link to the group so that you can send it to anyone who wants to join it without the need to be your friend. This is useful at conferences, seminars, and extensive trips.
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artificial intelligenceFacebook and many companies are working on something called Bots, which is a standalone, AI-powered app to do a specific job. In Telegram, you can create bots or add any of them to your conversations. For example, with my old friends on Islam, we use the Bot to vote on the location and time of our meetings. There is a bot that enables you to find out who is interacting the most. You can if you want to add a bot to monitor someone's Twitter account, and if he tweets he sends it to you. There is a translation bot and another for currency conversion. There are thousands, so choose whatever you want.
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Nickname: There is a short name for each user with which you can create a conversation with this person without the need for his number. Yes, just tell others your short name.
last word
The article became very long so I decided to stop listing the advantages, but they can be summarized as follows:
- For those who want encryption and security, Telegram is the most advanced.
- Who wants to have an actual app with full features, Telegram is the best.
- For those who want privacy and the ability to delete and edit their messages, Telegram exclusively provides these benefits.
- For those who want to send files, pictures and videos without restrictions, the method is Telegram.
- For those who want a more sophisticated and fun chat, Telegram provides tools for them.
It remains to be mentioned that in the world of conversations, Telegram is the successor to WhatsApp. The latter has been copying Telegram features and transmitting them to him for two years. But the popularity of WhatsApp is higher and currently Facebook is considering introducing its own jobs to benefit from the 19 billion paid for it. In 2015, when WhatsApp ran into a bug, Telegram announced that it had gained 8 million new users in hours. When a Brazilian court suspended WhatsApp for 48 hours, Telegram announced that there were 1.5 million Brazilians who had downloaded Telegram for the first time. Even on the Wikipedia WhatsApp page, Telegram is mentioned 11 times on the page, unlike any other chatting app.
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