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WhatsApp Revamps Groups With New Features Like Emoji Reactions, Adds Communities Option

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Popular Meta-owned messaging app WhatsApp today announced the launch of a new "Communities" feature, which is designed to allow people to bring together separate groups under a single umbrella. WhatsApp says that this will give people a way to receive updates that are sent to an entire community, and then organize smaller discussion groups on important topics.

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So, for example, school parents could create an overarching "School" community, which breaks out into smaller groups based on grade and other factors. Community admins will have access to "powerful new tools" like announcement messages and control over the groups that can be created within a community.
We think Communities will make it easier for a school principal to bring all the parents of the school together to share must-read updates and set up groups about specific classes, extracurricular activities, or volunteer needs.
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WhatsApp is also adding a number of improvements for groups, including emoji reactions for reacting to messages, an admin delete feature that will allow problematic messages to be removed from everyone's chats, file sharing with support for files up to 2GB, and one-tap voice calling for up to 32 people.

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I deleted my WhatsApp last week, too much spam and never got a message in 7 years. Nothing but spam.
 
I can't wait until the death of this app like MSN messenger and Blackberry died out.

icanhazmac said:
Hard pass. Will never install or use anything from teh Zuck.
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Unfortunately , Whatsapp has reached a status where you can not live with out it. Its not popular in the USA but everywhere else its a Whatsapp world. Just like MasterCard and Visa, its too wide spread and people give 0 care about privacy, they actually do not know their backups of all their personal conversations are not encrypted in the cloud.

Signal is just not picking up and it doesn't help that signal is just not as convenient as Whatsapp.
 
MacBH928 said:
I can't wait until the death of this app like MSN messenger and Blackberry died out.



Unfortunately , Whatsapp has reached a status where you can not live with out it. Its not popular in the USA but everywhere else its a Whatsapp world. Just like MasterCard and Visa, its too wide spread and people give 0 care about privacy, they actually do not know their backups of all their personal conversations are not encrypted in the cloud.

Signal is just not picking up and it doesn't help that signal is just not as convenient as Whatsapp.
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I’ve been living without it just fine but I live in the USA. People have my phone number. If they want to text me or send me a iMessage they can. I trust my phone carrier and Apple way more than Zuckerberg as scary as that is. His fortune relies exclusively on your personal information. My phone carrier has other, bigger revenue streams though I’m under zero illusions they don’t traffic in people’s private data as well and with Apple they make their money on the hardware so their focus on privacy is reassuring in that it’s a competitive advantage for them.

My parents always told me that if you don’t want somebody else to read it then don’t write it down. That’s never been more true than today with our devices. If there’s something personal that I don’t want getting out then I speak to the individual in person and if they have a smart speaker we’re talking outside of their home. I don’t do anything or communicate anything on my devices that I wouldn’t mind if it got out. The assumption must be that your data and information is out there and you must act accordingly in todays environment where there are all of these “free” apps and services. Given todays threat landscape in terms of hackers / bad actors you have to assume your information is out there and act accordingly.
 
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I’m in Europe and I succeeded in bringing all my coworkers over to Signal. It’s just the team I’m part of but at least it’s a start. We’ve had zero problems with Signal so far.

I dropped WA (alas, with a long list of contacts) when it got swallowed by Facebook- I knew what was coming…
 
Macaholic868 said:
I’ve been living without it just fine but I live in the USA. People have my phone number. If they want to text me or send me a iMessage they can. I trust my phone carrier and Apple way more than Zuckerberg as scary as that is. His fortune relies exclusively on your personal information. My phone carrier has other, bigger revenue streams though I’m under zero illusions they don’t traffic in people’s private data as well and with Apple they make their money on the hardware so their focus on privacy is reassuring in that it’s a competitive advantage for them.

My parents always told me that if you don’t want somebody else to read it then don’t write it down. That’s never been more true than today with our devices. If there’s something personal that I don’t want getting out then I speak to the individual in person and if they have a smart speaker we’re talking outside of their home. I don’t do anything or communicate anything on my devices that I wouldn’t mind if it got out. The assumption must be that your data and information is out there and you must act accordingly in todays environment where there are all of these “free” apps and services. Given todays threat landscape in terms of hackers / bad actors you have to assume your information is out there and act accordingly.
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This is because you are computer literate , most people out there have no idea what is going on the background and think these apps are free by magic never questioning who is behind it and why are they making these apps in the first. Surely they are not doing it out of their own good hearts to serve society, after all the company behind is worth 1 Trillion dollars.

People do not know what you know, and if they realised an employee in Facebook can read all their messages and see all their pictures they will certainly act differently.
 
Telegrams had this since what, 2014? And offers far superior software on all platforms. Seems like they are beating a dead horse to me
 
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