Have you ever reached a point in life where you just want to know who are your real friends, those you can hang around with for better and for always?Most people are left asking themselves this question.
How someone is able to pick who to talk to first when you have a contact list of more than 200 friends that you have saved their numbers, is hail difficult.
Of course their are a few who will only call or text whenever they need a favor from you. The moment you see this message ,”niaje bro umepotea.”( How are you doing brother, been a while) first thing that comes ringing is a request for some cash.
Now you no longer need to worry to differentiate this kind of friend.
WhatsApp will now rank your friends in order of how often you interact and the type of content you share with them.
As the name suggests, the new Ranking feature will automatically arrange your contact list by pushing your ‘favourite’ friend’s status updates to the top of your list.
Status updates published by the contact with the highest ranking will always be at the top of the list, so you will quickly be able to find your favorite status updates.
The data will be used in the Status section of the app and monitor your activity with friends, showing you updates from the people it thinks you want to see at the top.
This means people you frequently ignore or rarely interact with on the messaging app will be moved to the bottom of the list.
Rankings will be determined by your phone locally meaning that if you delete the app or change your phone, it will return to a chronological layout while it re-learns your the ranking system.
This algorithm is very similar to the one adopted by Instagram which amassed many complaints from users because they wanted to see posts from people in order of when it was posted.
In 2015, the company quietly introduced a new feature which allowed users to see who they spoke to most by going into the settings option and clicking the ‘storage usage’ button.
This shows the total number of messages you have sent and received at the bottom, as well as a breakdown of the number in each conversation from high to low.
WhatsApp is just rolling out the feature today.