You Can Now Share Status Updates Across Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp

[Trausner]

Nice, iPad app confirmed! … oh wait…

 

[thegerman]

Best Messenger in the world gets even better. Nice.

 

[kaycrystal626]

WhatApp is full of scammers!

 

[cocky jeremy]

Status? Are we going back to the AIM days?

(I wish)

AIM and AOL private chats were the best. "Hi", "Hey", "PoolParty", "Cerver"

 

[CasinoOwl]

I'm not a fan of Meta. I use Facebook minimally, but BlueSky is enough to fill in the rest. I deleted all of my non-FB Meta accounts.

 

[Dr McKay]

Won’t be long until it’s just one app.

Didn’t messenger have to split away from the main FB app because it became so bloated it started hitting app restrictions on Apple or Googles store? Can’t imagine them ever merging if that was the case.

 

[Rychiar]

a feature no one has ever used on any of them

 

[cjsuk]

The problem is that Facebook and Instagram are uncompressed HD stories while Whatsappp compress everything and doesn’t look right

HD muck or SD muck.

I'll take no muck.

 

[bLackjackj]

Truly showing your age if you think a status update is either cool or "in" 🤦‍♂️..its 2025 people, we have evolved and moved on.

 

[ubersoldat]

Wait, didn't the EU initially only allow "Facebook" to buy WhatsApp under the premise that both services would be kept completely separate from one another? What happened to that.

I know all the Meta AI crap isn't available on WhatsApp in the EU. Wonder if this will be handles similar

In the EU the users had to actively agree to linking Whatsapp to Facebook. If you did not agree, then the accounts stayed separate. While in the rest of the world the accounts have been linked without asking the user.

 

[SebCohen]

Bruh, AIM was the jam !! Good times!

Pidgin was THE BEST!!!

 

[[AUT] Thomas]

The only "messenger" in which Status is actually usefull is Microsoft Teams. And that says as a lot. Microsoft for once got something right.
Properly implementing a Status would be very helpful, but META much like most other messenger completely failed to make use of it. Probably, they now say it's not important because no one uses it... being completely ignorant that their implementation is the reason that it's not being used.

Nevertheless... there should be a Status API in iOS to set that globally. Also, for limited time (expires in XXXX) and probably hide from specific groups or people (but that would need to be set inside the App).
"I'm currently in a plane, will check my messages only tomorrow.", "Driving most of the day, can read, but not respond, call if urgent"... stuff like that would probably have prevented a lot of "misunderstandings"... yet, here we are, META doesn't even get out of office messages on Whatsapp Business to work because in their infinite wisdom they implemented the feature on the client instead of the server, so it won't work if the Client is offline. Task failed successfully.

 

[Anonymous Freak]

Sorry, screw Meta and all their platforms for [reason redacted due to politics]. Deleted my accounts a couple weeks ago, wont' look back.

 

[svish]

Good to know about it. Some may like this new feature, but I have no interest in the Status update. Never have used it and don't plan on doing so even with the changes.

 

[lostPod]

ugh … my only tie to Facebook is that their market place is actually the only place for local sales that has worked … and they own Oculus, so I need a Meta account for that which is annoying af. What are some google portable VR systems in alternative ? it seems like Meta is the only portable system.

 

[lostPod]

Also what really is the point of threads ? Is it only to compete with YT shorts or TikTok ? Seems really redundant with Instagram being a perfectly good option.