Whatsapp users have for a long time lamented over the apps decision to permit and promote excessive sharing of messages. The users believe that since the app was designed for personal messaging, it should not allow for the sharing of messages.
Whatsapp seem to have finally heard the cries of its millions of users across the world and have now capped the number of times a person can instantly forward a message.
With the limitation, anyone with the latest version of WhatsApp cannot forward a single message to more than five chats at once contrary to what was there before when one could forward a single message to even 20 users in his phone book.
WhatsApp will therefore from today not let you tick more than five chats when forwarding a message.
The Facebook-owned company said on its blog on Monday that this will reduce the number of forwarded messages as it has happened in India during a six-month trial period with the forwarding limitation.
“WhatsApp carefully evaluated this test and listened to user feedback over a six-month period. The forward limit significantly reduced forwarded messages around the world. Starting today, all users on the latest versions of WhatsApp can now forward to only five chats at once, which will help keep WhatsApp focused on private messaging with close contacts,” it said in a post.
The firm chose India to pilot the limitation because by its own observation, it is “where people forward more messages, photos, and videos than any other country in the world”.
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