The thing is…you can’t ! This is more or less a personal “enlightenment” ! You can forward your arguments, say what you know and why one is better than the other, but it always comes to personal experience ! If you’re not ready to change, you’re not ready, even with the best argument in the world, people tend to always change when they personally experience something.
Don’t push yourself or others, this will only cause frustration and anger. Do what you can but don’t expect others to change/think the same way you are…
I know this is very vague and doesn’t solve your actual issue, but that’s the best you can do :)
Maybe suggest the install a fork instead, extragram and ayugram are pretty nice.
Just make sure they understand that telegram is a social network like tiktok or Facebook and not a secure chat application.
I wish I could quit Telegram myself, but with how much it is used for my university and recreation - it is next to impossible right now. So instead of that, I at least tried to minimize harm: treat it as a fully public space and behave as if every my conversation there is watched right now (so that the chance of saying anything remotely dangerous is minimized), use a FOSS client instead of the official one, and try to get as many individuals as possible to XMPP, Simplex or at least Signal.
Telegram and Facebook share the fact that they’ve got lots of content and communities built around them.
I use telegram for my home automation stuff because it’s free, the web hooks are super quick, and it supports image upload
But all my family chatter happens on signal.
The best way you can convince somebody not to put their entire life on telegram or Facebook is to tell them that advertisers are reading their conversations and giving them ads based on what they talk about people feel that spooky as shit
I’ve used Telegram for years and never seen an ad. Their Privacy Policy says ads aren’t based on messages
Unlike other services, we don’t use your data for ad targeting or other commercial purposes. Telegram only stores the information it needs to function as a secure and feature-rich cloud service.
Telegram offers a tool for advertisers to promote their messages in public one-to-many channels, but these sponsored messages are based solely on the topic of the public channels in which they are shown. No user data is mined or analyzed to display ads or sponsored messages.
I’m certain that policy will never change. Also, it is completely a coincidence that they won’t encrypt by default or group chats.
Also really sure they would never hand over your private chats to anyone who asked.
The next step is Anydesk and losing his life’s savings
Telegram isn’t E2E encrypted unless you use secret chats. Even WhatsApp is better than that.