5% users in India delete WhatsApp; 22% pare usage on policy change: Survey

WhatsApp's latest policy seems to have prompted aware users or early adopters to shift to alternative instant messaging platforms such as Signal and Telegram

About 5 per cent Indians have deleted Whatsapp and another 22 per cent have reduced usage drastically after the Facebook-owned messaging giant recently revealed plans to update its privacy policy, according to the community platform LocalCircles.

Three weeks since WhatsApp came out with the new privacy policy, LocalCircles has conducted another survey to understand if people are actually leaving the platform and migrating. 

Leaving a social network is not easy because the whole network or at least 75 per cent of the members of a group or 75 pent of an individual’s contacts must move to an alternate platform before