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Why Social Media Chat Apps Are Becoming An Intrusive Headache?

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The popular chatting application Whatsapp might land up using its user base under the new integration decision with its new parent company Facebook Social media is precariously becoming intrusive. The Whatsapp social interaction platform is going to lose its charm as it integrates itself with Facebook, threatening its userbase’s data privacy.   A lot of people are not clear what this means for the privacy of their chats on Whatsapp. While Whatsapp is making it clear that it does not intend to intrude into the privacy of people’s chats, the integration will have some kind of effect on the sense of privacy of the users. The new policy is a reflection of CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s thought about the ‘interoperability’ of all his parent company’s entities. He stressed about this in 2019 when he expressed his vision of a cross-platform communication. This would spread across Facebook Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp. However, this integration will also be helpful to Facebook from a com...