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?

The yoga teacher could have made it admin only for posting so only she could send messages

Lots of people apparently don't realise that you can change your WhatsApp settings!

WhatsApp no longer announces "X Left the group", only the group admin sees who's left now. Also you can mute notifications so it doesn't ping.

Because there's far far too many of them.

I want to use a group for info only not for social chit chat.

I can easily have hundreds of messages a day 'happy birthday Debbie' (I think she stands behind me in Pilates) , 'when is dress up day?' (Look it up on the fucking website) 'did anyone find Josh's jumper' (no). And on and on. I don't care.

I’ve turned off the sound on my WhatsApp so I don’t get the pings therefore it doesn’t bother me if I’m added to groups, but once the group has died down and I don’t need to be involved I exit to clean up my WhatsApp.

I got bullied in one of my WhatsApp groups.

I’ve exited groups that are too busy. I hate seeing 40 new messages every time I check my phone. I can’t keep up and I’ve no interest in that level of back and forth messaging with anyone.

The few groups I am in now are chatty now and then, then quiet for weeks. Much nicer.

Mostly because of some of the comments on here from people who think it’s rude to leave a group no longer even active!
just like adding and deleting friends on facebook it just becomes too political. You get the people who read but never message, the time when you’re busy and pick up your phone to find 450 messages that you’re just not going to read because realistically who can be bothered. I am in 2 one for work because we are all spread over different sites so it’s easy to get in touch quickly and my immediate household for the same reason.
if I get added to one I remove myself or if I’m asked I say no. They are just another layer added to the things that cause hassle part of my life.

Thats awful, no wonder you left. Hope you’re ok x

Because it’s no longer relevant (I’ve moved away or my kid doesn’t do that sport anymore) or in the case of one family chat because I’m tired of a day by day, kick by kick, burp by burp account of one distant family member’s pregnancy. I leave far fewer chats now I have switched off the ability for other people to add me without my permission in the first place though.

I’m really only interested in WhatsApp groups that are used solely for simple information purposes (“running club is at x location tonight because y location flooded”) or that only contain a couple of people. And I’m happy to have individual chats. But massive never ending pointless “chat” involving the parents of every kid in my child’s class, or each of the 40+ children, grandchildren and great grandchildren of my late Nanny B is really not my thing.

It’s not how people communicate in real life - you don’t have an ongoing in person conversation with dozens of people at once!

Because I loathe them. They're intrusive, demanding and often inappropriate as well as being untimely .

Oh I love all the chats very rarely leave

If there's not a specific reason for the group eg a group trip planned, etc. then I have exited because I find the chat boring. That's it.

It doesn't announce it anymore, just the admins get notifications

Just once, when it petered out and it had served its purpose - people weren’t chatting anymore. I actually set up the group (to support each other during counselling training) so have felt a bit guilty ever since leaving and not being open about me feeling frustrated with people for the lack of chat, then feeling unengaged with the group.

I still have the habit of leaving my phone sound on at night, even though my kids are now grown up. I left the Whatsapp group because people kept messaging late at night.

can't be arsed with them, too much going on. Speak to me to arrange something. My WhatsApp groups are muted.

I have almost all of mine muted, certainly the ones with most traffic. I check daily.

What's worse is when you're REMOVED from said group. Honestly people are shit and I hate texting and WhatsApp with a fierce passion.

Because I find it all a bit attention seeking and needy 'you have seen my post why didn't you reply' and other gems

It's probably similar to my disorganised 70k unread emails. I just ignore it. The message moves far enough down not to be concerned once the event is over and if too much is going on, I'll mute and look when I have chance. I couldn't be arsed to be leaving groups all the time.

You just mute each individual WhatsApp chat, not hard.

Most of the time because the conversation has run its course. A WhatsApp group is an invitation to chat, and be available and open to chat, it is not a summons.

This is an excellent feature. We had this for a sports club. Only committee could post.

Yeah but I still can't be arsed with them and endless messages. It feels like being at work all the time. It isn't going to enrich my life. I would rather have a one to one chat with people if I want to and my friends generally feel the same.

Not for me.