As technology consumers, when we’ve used something for a length of time, we expect improvement. So what’s all the fuss about? I guess WhatsApp does everything you need it to do.

In fact, we’re now at a point where it looks like WhatsApp is now playing catch up with Telegram. After having been using it for over a year, I feel confident to actually publicly give a positive opinion on this instant messaging service and most importantly, I can say that it has improved so fast and has caught up to WhatsApp.

Telegram is a new (actually been in development for over a year) cloud based messaging service which pretty much does everything our beloved WhatsApp does but a lot more. It has it's shortcomings, and a little drama recently, and it's still in development, but I think it's one of the most interesting entries into the secure messaging game.Telegram? No, I am not referring to the old form of communication telegraphy. All this gives me the feeling that Tox goes out of it's way to make it hard for anyone not only to corrupt it's network, but it's mission to provide secure messaging in the control of the participants to the extent that it's possible. Once you've connected the first time, any node can bootstrap off of any other so it's very difficult to keep someone from connecting, and when I don't have an Internet connection, it works on my local network.

You can also switch it to TCP mode and run it through Tor if that's too much exposure. I use qTox, uTox, and AnTox on various machines/devices and it's great, there's no other mode besides Off-The-Record, it delivers on it's promise to 'just work,' it's serverless(There are no accounts, your data is stored on your own computer) and it only reveals your IP address to people you are actually chatting with at that time. It's a bit bandwidth-intensive by nature, but besides that, Tox and it's various clients are great for what I want in a good guy messaging app.

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