Whats up with my whatsapp

I am a proud survivor of one week without Whatsapp. Yes ladies and gentleman my Whatsapp was off for an entire seven days and I survived to tell the tale. It was a bitter sweet experience,  ice cream  mixed with glass. So allow me to share with you the ice cream bits and the cut glass bits that I experienced during the week

 ICE CREAM

1.       My battery lasted longer than usual. Usually my battery requires charging at around 6pm everyday but when my Whatsapp was off we could last the entire day. So to all those smartphone users who are always complaining about smart phones with dumb batteries please forgive your batteries and blame your applications.

2.       I received a lot more phone calls than I normal do. I know it costs more but most times phones calls mean a lot more than whatsapp messages. A phone calls also gets the message across much faster than waiting for someone to be online, waiting for the grey ticks, then waiting to see the blue ticks and so on and so forth.

3.       Life was a lot quieter. I didn’t constantly need to have my phone in my hands reading and replying messages or pointlessly looking at people’s profile pictures. Plus reaching for my phone was not the first thing I did in the morning, which was quite refreshing.

4.       I rediscovered SMS and forced the recipients of my messages to do the same as well

CUT GLASS

1.       Because the vast majority has become so reliant on communicating via Whatsapp, I missed out on a number of important messages (although I strongly feel that more effort could have been made to convey these messages using other means of communication)

2.       SMS doesn’t allow me to send and receive images and videos, I missed those…

Will I turn off my Whatsapp again, most definitely.