How I Quit WhatsApp

Quitting the demon app is not for everyone, but it’s possible

indi.ca
5 min readJan 10, 2021

9 months ago I fell in the pool and just never replaced my smartphone. I got a Nokia banana-phone which is honestly about as useful as a banana. As a result, I couldn’t use WhatsApp. When I logged into my wife’s phone to finally delete the app, however, all hell broke loose.

For other people.

Indi has left the group

This is what lashed across the screens of my relatives, my old work mates, my friends, my world. The app doesn’t say:

Indi left WhatsApp because it sucks

It says:

Indi has left the group because you suck, and he's probably mad at you.

Literally, my Punchi Amma called me that night to see what was wrong. The whole family was talking about it. I of course didn’t pick up, which must have kicked the speculation into overdrive. “WHAT DID WE DO?” This would have presumably been happening on every group I was in.

In the morning Amma called to yell at me for, like, leaving the family. I was like holy shit, this is one sticky app. They don’t need to send emails. If you quit your own mother will yell at you.

The power of WhatsApp

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Indrajit (Indi) Samarajiva is a Sri Lankan writer. Follow me at www.indi.ca, or just email me at indi@indi.ca.

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