Why do people exit whatsapp groups?

[Teenie22]

Genuinely interested in why people do this? Unless it’s for a specific event that you’re not going to, or unless there’s conflict in a group, I don’t really understand it. When you set up a group for people who regularly chat and interact and get on, why would you exit the group?

I loathe WhatsApp groups. I always exit if anyone adds me. Can't be doing with it pinging all the time.

i find lazy or its more efficient to say x chats in person as then there is no hard copy of the chat and in [person the means can be made more clear on context, etc

Power I think. My friend does this, will start a new what’s app group if we are going to an event and leave the old one rather then just posting in the old one and one continuous group.
so we have 11/12 old groups with the exact same people.

Once it becomes irrelevant (after a trip or event)
when people start posting stupid things about animals, football, politics, religion, food etc
constant ‘happy birthdays’ ‘congratulations’ etc

Maybe they don't want their phone going every 2 seconds.

You’re no longer involved in whatever group, sport or hobby caused the group to be set up, your child no longer plays with the children of that group of parents, you’ve drifted away from the other participants, you’re trying to cut down on phone time, the group, or some members, post dozens of times a day, members post endless cat gifs etc etc. Any number of reasons.

You know you can set it not to ping ?

I joined a yoga class. The instructor said I’ll add you to the WhatsApp group so you can keep up to date with info about classes. I said ok. I got tons of messages from people (who didn’t even attend the same classes) saying ‘great class tonight Deb!’ Ten times over. 7am I’d get a message saying ‘Hi Deb my knee is playing up so can’t make the class today, next week Alan has his op so I can’t make that but hoping to be back by 27th.’ Then a few of them planned a curry night, so 657 messages went back and forth over who was ordering what.

I DON’T GIVE A FUCK!!

So bloody irritating.

Maybe they’re not interested in regularly chatting and interacting online. I don’t think many people are interested in the trivialities of other people’s day to day. I would also wish I could exit without WA announcing it on the chat.

What moveover said.

I was joined to a group for an event I couldn't attend - within days I had 500 photos clogging up my phone from everyone who attended said event. I only knew 3 of the people out of 30.
Everytime I tried to find one of my own photos I'd have to wade through shedloads of grinning faces I didn't know from Adam.

I completely deleted WhatsApp after just being completely fed up with the dinging every few minutes of various groups where it was just all incredibly tedious boring stuff. I just say I don’t have it now.

Some people seem to need the constant wittering of people to feel alive/relevant. It's all a bit needy.

I find it tedious and timeconsuming.

I left a school parents chat as one mum was consistently mean to me. Didn’t realise how awful it all was until a lovely mum pointed out how nasty it was. I deleted the group chat and haven’t been bothered since. My little ones still have play dates, other mums ask me individually now if they’d like me to hold on to their kiddies after school if they’ve been delayed, and so on. Life did exist before social media.

You can archive them...or mute them

That’s really annoying, I agree you only need one ongoing group if it’s the same people every time, does your friend not understand how WhatsApp works??

I can definitely understand you leaving a group for this! 🤣

I left groups because of the reasons already mentioned. I stay in one with my dc and dil, and one genealogy group, that is focused on a specific set of ancestors.

That is odd for sure!

You can set your settings so photos from WhatsApp don’t get automatically saved to your phone, I agree it’s irritating, I’ve turned it off :)

Yep definitely understand that too!

I'm in 2 school ones. One is dcs close friends but are now in different classes., one is class , then someone opened another class one missing out a few ' she dislikes' I cba with games like that. So I removed myself. In fairness the class one is on mute as its the same 5 people who clearly can't read the emails or be bothered ' is it non uniform tomorrow ' ' when's parents evening '

My colleague does this and when I asked her why, she said that she has either forgotten that there is already a group, or cannot find the group she needed to, so it is quicker to start again.

But doesn't the group just naturally peter out once the event has happened (except for maybe a day or two of reminiscing about the highlights)?

Maybe it's just me, but I find it quite rude when people make a point of leaving a group that has obviously run its course for everybody - almost as if they are the only ones who have a calendar and everybody else is too thick to have realised that the event is now finished.

I also get this!

I have always come out of WhatsApp groups. I hate my phone constantly pinging. I could set it to mute, but in honesty, I'm just not interested in being part of one. I've now changed my settings so that I can't be added to groups.