This is how some of the most popular characters in literature would have chatted. We present… classical stories, which would have ended differently if only the characters had Viber.

Nowadays, we can’t imagine our everyday lives without smartphones and the Internet, and what would we be if we couldn’t constantly share our emotions in chats with our loved ones? These forms of communication have become mandatory in the really short period of time since the end of the 20th century. And imagine what would have happened if these technologies were available hundreds or even thousands of years ago? How would they change the outcome of some of our favorite stories, and how would technology have ruled over the lives of some of the most popular characters in literature?

Here we take a look at some examples of how Viber, one of the most popular communication apps we have now, could have rewritten literary history, if only these beloved characters had access to it:

Romeo & Juliet, 1597

The troubled outcome of the famous drama of Verona is known to almost everyone. Although written correspondence was a popular form of communication back then, especially when people were experiencing the need either to hide their feelings from others or were planning a secret mission, the possibility for end-to-end encryption, with that extra level of privacy, would have been a great asset to everyone.

Creating a Secret chat

Imagine Juliet sends Romeo a disappearing message:

Oh, Romeo! Father Lawrence and I have found a way for us to escape together! I will take a poison thus everyone would think I were dead, but don’t worry, I will wake up as soon as the effect expires! Let’s meet tonight at the Capulet crypt to plan it all my love! What say you? I can’t wait to see thee!

If there was Viber during Shakespeare’s time, the young lovers could have been fully aligned on their secret mission, escaped from their feuding families, and lived happily ever after.

Robinson Crusoe, 1719

Crusoe was the victim of a shipwreck accident in a storm in South America, 40 miles from the shores of the Orinoco river, that changed his life forever. Crusoe landed on the Island of Despair, where he managed to survive in the wilderness, by making his own hunting tools. Imagine if a man on a lonely island had the chance to interact with his favourite football team’s chatbot?

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Being on a lonely island, with no chance of face-to-face social interaction, he would have been satisfied getting the latest Barça news, competing with his friends for monthly prizes and even paying a remote visit to Camp Nou!

With Viber on his phone, this man wouldn’t have been bored for even a minute!

Giacomo Casanova (1725-1798)

The world’s most famous lover managed to give each of his hundreds of women love, admiration, attention and a feeling they were the center of his world. But during his imprisonment and travels around the world, thousands of paramours were left totally heart-broken without the chance to interact with their lover.

Opening a community

Suppose he had opened a Community, an advanced chat without member limitations, to get in regular contact with his female fans and satisfy their hunger for his poems and intellectual quotes. Since he was a worldwide famous lover, women from other countries would have been able to join the Community as well, and understand everything their crush posted thanks to the translation feature.

If there had been Viber around, there wouldn’t have been a single lonely woman back then.

Snow White (By Grimm brothers)

Chased away by an evil queen, the princess flees into the wood where she meets seven dwarfs and starts living happily with them. Every morning they go into the mountains and every evening when they come back home Snow White has their meal ready and their house tidy.

Using polls

Imagine if Snow White could use Polls to ask what they want for dinner:

• Chicken with mushroom sauce
• Vegetable risotto
• Eggs and bacon

With Viber around, she would have saved plenty of time by knowing in advance what her small friends wanted for dinner and they themselves would have been delighted to eat their favorite foods!

Love stories are the same today as they ever were, but the way we express ourselves has changed dramatically. How lucky we are to have Viber in our lives to make it easy to keep in touch, share our secrets privately, and have fun as we do so!

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People’s privacy and how this privacy is protected by the companies who have access to data is a major concern for people worldwide.

At Viber, we are committed to giving you the very highest levels of privacy across the app, and choice and control over the data needed to allow Viber to run its service.

Following the success of additional privacy measures released to Viber users in Europe last May, we are now adding these features for Viber users worldwide so that you can all benefit from using the most secure messaging app.

Protecting Young Viber Users

One of our main priorities is to make sure that Viber is a safe space for the youngest users. To make that into reality, young people between 13 (the minimum age allowed on the app) and 16 years of age who use Viber are protected by default by the highest privacy settings on the app.

These settings ensure that their data can’t be used for targeted services including ads, names and images are not shown to chatbots and their location can’t be shared with third parties.

To enforce this, you should expect to see a prompt to confirm your age in the upcoming days. For Viber users between the ages of 13 and 16, we will activate the most protective privacy settings.

Promoting Control Over the Data You Share

Offering you more transparency and better control over the very limited amount of data that we need to collect in order to provide Viber services, is our way of ensuring you own your data.

The Personal Data screen now contains new tools for you to better control and know about your personal data on Viber. Find this screen when you tap on Settings > Privacy.

Reminder: What Makes Viber The Most Secure Messenger?

Viber gives you a range of powerful ways to protect your own privacy and security on the app as well as our protection promise as standard. Make sure that you stay as protected as you can by always keeping your Viber app up to date. These tools include:

End-to-End Encryption

The Viber standard: We don’t read your messages, listen to your calls or scan your images. We don’t use your private conversation content to make a profit because we can’t see it. Our end-to-end encryption protects your privacy as default on all private and group chats and calls.

No Content is Saved On Our Servers

If there is a delay in delivering the message to your conversation partner, your message will wait patiently on Viber’s servers – in fully encrypted code – until the other phone is ready to receive it. The successfully delivered content of your personal chats and calls is never copied onto Viber’s servers, nor does it leave any kind of trace.

Delete Messages Anytime

You can delete any messages that you regret sending from both your device and the people you’ve sent it to – at any time. Deleting the message totally removes it from both your device and your friend’s device even if they’ve already seen it. Once deleted, that content can never been seen again.

Secret Chats

Get that added touch of extra privacy when you send messages in Secret Chats. Secret Chats allow you to send a self-destruct timer for every message you send in the chat. Your recipient can’t take a screenshot of the chat on Android, or you will receive a notification if someone tried to forward or screenshot the message on an iPhone. In addition, there is no preview for images and videos on Secret Chat, they are blurred out until they are opened, and of course they will disappear once the timer has run out.

Hidden Chats

If you want a conversation that won’t even appear in your chats list, Viber has you covered here too with Hidden Chats. These chats are normal chats but they are kept in a secret section of the app that you can only access with a PIN.

Control Over Your Online Status

Hide your online status to control whether other users can see when you last used your Viber app. You can also hide the delivery status of the messages that they send you, so they can’t tell whether or not you have read it.

Access Viber’s fully private and secure messages. Update the app now!