When WhatsApp came up with the group chat it was the best thing ever, we could all have a meaningful discussion at the convenience of everyone, but now this feature has greatly been misused, one could go to bed having been in three groups and wake up in the morning in fifteen more groups without consent or knowing what any of those groups are about.
Whatsapp has finally found a way of fixing this misused feature. The social media company is developing an option within the settings that will give you the option of managing how you get invite by others into groups. The feature will be available under the privacy settings as an option.
According to WABetaInfo, when the feature gets enabled in the future, you’ll access it by going to Settings > Account > Privacy and you’ll see it as part of the options. The ‘Group’ option will allow you to let either Everyone, My Contacts or no one to add you to groups.
Just like how it happens when you want to be someone’s friend on Facebook, you will receive a request to join a group due to the fact that the group admin cannot add you. (this is great! Right?) However, those requests have an expiry period where they will expire after 72 hours after the time of request; yes you had better act quick so that you’re considered a snob.
WABetaInfo says that this is a definitely cause of celebration for WhatsApp users around the world. This has been a perennial problem that WhatsApp has had for a while now and it is great that they are working on a clean fix. This is actually a better implementation than what we have on Telegram thanks to the inclusion of the ‘Nobody’ option, so this would mean a peaceful WhatsApp experience some time in the future.
