How many WhatsApp groups are you in?

[GeorgieTheGorgeousGoat]

I just counted up because it seems to be one of those evenings where quite a few of them are active, it doesn’t happen very often.

26

I can’t believe it’s that many but most are just practical and useful ones, such as a group of parents who lift share the kids to activities or other local childminders we can all pass enquiries on to.

How many groups are you in? Do you often mute or wish they’d go away? I don’t mind mine as no one really chats rubbish, it’s all necessary info.

Fair enough. I wouldn't be without mine because it gets used a lot

I have settings so I only get notifications for non-group messages. My family has a WhatsApp group (siblings, their OHs, my parents) for sharing pics and that sort of things and even though I love the group the notifications were driving me mad! In settings you can switch off notifications for groups. Then I just go in and read them when I want too.

I don’t know how may I’m in. Most have been for specific events, then die a natural death.

5 at the moment. Son's football team, football club committee, big family holiday 2019 planning, group Christmas meal and one that is just me, mum and sister where we chat and make plans and I send updates and pictures of kids.

14 active ones.

I love the wittering (but try not to chime in too much in case others hate it and me by extension). But I love picking up my phone to find dozens of notifications, photos etc.

Family in law chat
Family chat
6 groups linked to activities I do with DD
3 general chat groups with "mum friends" and NCT
A few specific ongoing conversations re childcare and similar

None. I rarely get texts, calls or fb messages either

4 active groups - one relating to a hobby, the other three are groups of friends.

The idea of not using whatsapp because you have text messaging seems bizarre to me. The real benefit of whatsapp is the group conversations. And the fact you can see that a message has been delivered and read, so you aren't left wondering if they received it or not.

It’s not the fact that you don’t have it that makes you smug. It’s your need to come on a thread where people who clearly use and like something are talking about it, to tell us you don’t have it. You sound as though you think that makes you better than others who do have it.

I've just counted up and I'm in 11 groups that are currently active, that doesn't include groups for events in the past etc

I do have one particular group muted as I don't want to leave but a lot of the posts aren't of interest to me

I love whatsapp and think it's great for making plans, sharing pics etc and less public than FB so you can share things with a more select group of people who it is relevant to rather than posting on FB knowing that 90% of your friends won't be interested

I'm in 4 all very active.
One for studying.
One for night outs.
One for escorting
One for general stuff

Studying, I don't want to be in groups on FB with random people. It's quicker and easier to reach out to 200+ people about a question or comment in a book, or other information at once rather than having to text/calls each person. Plus you get a variety of different responses.

Arranging nights out, again don't have to call/text/fb people and wait for people to reply and then pass on this info to other people, and pass on and on and on. Not everyone has FB or messenger either, yet more people have whatsapp.

Escorting, for safety reasons. Again easier to post to a huge group in one go about some vicious cunt targeting escorts, or whatever else we chat about.

General shit, again convenience.

Not only do I use my phone, but days when I am at home like now, I use the desktop version.

Surely I was just answering the question?

I use Whatsapp all the time. I’m a teacher so I’m part of several different groups. Some are for family some are made up of students and staff members as well. Even my childcare provider communicates with us via it as well as call. I get to remind students about deadlines that are important to them. Try it.

I don't use whatsapp, but I use a similar type app (kakaotalk) but not actually part of any groups, I prefer just talking 1 on 1 on apps like that.

4 active; that's enough

1. Just joined a parent group. I must be old skool as I use WhatsApp/Facebook messenger/texts the very same way, for 1:1 chats

Oh I also use Whatsapp, FB, Messenger, text, kik, sc, insta etc for 1-2-1 chats.
I even have a couple of groups on sc.
But most people have whatsapp so easier to do groups there.

How is a text less convenient than What's App?

theworldistoosmall I don’t understand how WhatsApp works differently from Messenger in your case. Messenger Group Chat has exactly the same function as WhatsApp Group Chat. The only difference being that WhatsApp is encrypted and more secure.

“How is a text less convenient than What's App?”

For one to one chats not really less convenient unless you are in an area with a crap signal. With WhatsApp you know whether the message has been delivered and whether it has been read, which you can’t do with texts. Also, my phone signal is crap when we visit family in Northumberland so I tend to rely on communication methods that rely on Wi-Fi.

I don’t see that there is any difference between Messenger and WhatsApp though. I don’t know why some people prefer one over the other. In my circle Messenger seems to be the preferred option. DD doesn't use WhatsApp, and neither do her friends.

My family
OH's family
Other NCT people (inactive since Christmas)

And a group with my closest university friends on FB messenger.

I'm clearly very unpopular

That's the key with some groups. It's encrypted. It's more secure so more people feel comfortable using it.
With messenger, I can click onto someone, and this gives me the option to take me to their facebook if they have one. I don't want random people getting that close. The number I use for whatsapp isn't connected to my facebook etc.

They can be really useful - for the odd group chat, for organizing a one off event.

I mute all of them though and just have them notified silently on my screen so I can quickly see if it’s useful or not. If it is I view. If not I view.

I take myself out of redundant groups.

1. My family, DH's family, work and a friends group. Most days no activity, other days lots. I have family all over the world so often wake up to find Australia has been busy! I love it but don't have any other social media.

Actually, 5, our own family one! Great for free photo sharing.

As few as possible, I was in a group that by lunch time there would be 150+ messages when I’d get my phone from my locker 😮 it was ridiculous. Apart from many members of the group bitching and being the biggest gossips 💩 I left under a cloud and found it was such a pressure lifted. It was 95%male and they all worked full time - but must have spent large parts of there working day messaging and altering photographs

So don’t join stuff now 😊

Theworldistosmall doesn’t Facebook own WhatsApp?