The app announced it will now allow users to bow out of groups silently without notifying other members – to sneak out, essentially, and never have to hear from that group again.
WhatsApp has announced it will now allow users to make silent exits from chats they no longer want to be part of, but will that do anything to alleviate the app’s complicated social politics? Charlie Gowans-Eglinton investigates…
I doubt you could get away with it on the family group chat, much as you might want to. One friend’s mother-in-law uses theirs as her personal notepad. “She fills it with random names of things or places she wanted to jot down,” my friend explained. “So you’d just get ‘Langston Cliffs Walking Trail’ because she was having a coffee with someone who’d mentioned it, so she could come back to it later.
But not all groups would take muting well . It depends on the stakes, and the players. Muting a group holiday is one thing; muting a bride, or her ‘bride squad’, is quite another. If you miss nipping off to the tea-point to moan about a colleague, there’s a WhatsApp group for that, too
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