“If” - updated to 4 October 2021, with apologies to Rudyard Kipling
IF you can keep your comms going when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on Zuck;
If you can trust your messaging app when all men doubt Facebook,
And you laugh at their bad luck:
IF you can keep your comms going when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on Zuck;
If you can trust your messaging app when all men doubt Facebook,
And you laugh at their bad luck:
If you can wait … and wait, and wait, and wait,
For WhatsApp to restart, perhaps with a new look,
Or, having waited, happily leave its users to their fate,
And yet still send and receive as many messages as you like;
For WhatsApp to restart, perhaps with a new look,
Or, having waited, happily leave its users to their fate,
And yet still send and receive as many messages as you like;
IF you can keep your data secure,
While messaging with Kings, friends or colleagues alike,
If no foes nor other competitors can infect your system, pure,
If all who use a sensible system, like you do, can keep in touch:
While messaging with Kings, friends or colleagues alike,
If no foes nor other competitors can infect your system, pure,
If all who use a sensible system, like you do, can keep in touch:
If you can ignore the constant advice
To use Facebook and its products because everyone else does,
Yours is the Earth and everything the digital age offers,
And, which is more, you'll be a smug Signal user, my son!
[Kipling reflected his era’s sexism. Women use Signal.]
To use Facebook and its products because everyone else does,
Yours is the Earth and everything the digital age offers,
And, which is more, you'll be a smug Signal user, my son!
[Kipling reflected his era’s sexism. Women use Signal.]
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