Social media is an increasingly important part of our daily lives. However, the trust we place in the usual suspects may be misplaced as evidenced by a recent controversy involving user data for one of the giants. For people who are looking to switch social media  platforms, here are some 'Made in India' options that you can take pride in using:

Hike

Hike Messenger is a joint venture between Bharti Enterprises and SoftBank. Hike is way more than just simple free instant messaging service with voice and video calling with a ton of awesome features like 20,000+ graphical stickers, emoticons, images, videos, audios, documents, voice messages, contacts, users' location and UPI payments to recharges to money transfers, you can do it all.

ShareChat

ShareChat is the best way to get everything fun and daily news from India within seconds. You can even share jokes, GIFs, audio songs, beauty, makeup and housekeeping tips, fitness videos, and images. Currently available in 10 vernacular Indian languages.

Mooshak

Mooshak is an attempt to make Hindi and Devnagari relevant and cool for the NextGen. It is a humble attempt to show how easy it really is to stay connected using the language that we emote, laugh and cry in. Facility to upload images, videos, and audio and share it with people around the globe in Devnagari.

GlobalLinker

For business networking, GlobalLinker, is the one-stop shop. GlobalLinker provides SMEs a platform to engage with each other, explore business opportunities, learn from experts and avail special discounts on a wide range of services such as travel, hotels, cars, advertising solutions, legal advice, insurance solutions and card protection to name a few. The platform also allows SMEs to create their very own online store - absolutely free of cost. 

The above apps are available on iOS & Google App Store for free download. Do let me know in the comments section below about your favourite social media apps which are made in India.

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