It’s releasing new features, including one designed to bring together group chats that are related. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg , and the aim is to allow users to combine group chats “under one umbrella with a structure that works for them.” Similar tools are in the works for Instagram and Facebook.
All WhatsApp users will soon be able to access communities. WhatsApp users will be able to create smaller group chats within their community to discuss important topics and easily switch between them. WhatsApp admins will have “powerful new tools” for managing communities. This includes the ability to broadcast announcements and choosing which groups to include.
WhatsApp suggests that families with children from the same school can form communities by bringing together their neighborhoods, workplaces, and parents. To get started, tap the Communities tab in the Android app. You will be able either to create a community from scratch or to add existing groups.
The Communities feature sounds somewhat like Facebook Groups (it bears similarity to). Nextdoor However, this is protected by end-to-end encryption. Zuckerberg is looking to a community-driven model in Meta to decrease the emphasis on feeds across Meta’s app apps. However, group chats may not behave as Facebook Groups. Recent years have seen a rise in the number of these types of messages. WhatsApp uses fewer moderation features due to its focus on encryption. This may make it more difficult for users to verify falsehoods.
WhatsApp is adding features to groups that aren’t connected to a community, as well as new polls. Groups will soon have polls and support for encrypted 32 person video calls. . Groups now support up 1 024 users.
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