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 ones set up for a specific event just fade away after the event anyway.

Do they? Aren't they just there on your phone unless you delete them?

Yes, but they're not active, so they're no bother.

I don't join them in the first place unless I really, really want to. Am in about three. Have said no to friends and even family asking and they were totally fine with it.

Left one because the constant wittering on was very boring.

They use your phone’s storage though. On iPhone settings it showed WhatsApp was using loads of storage so I removed myself from all groups which hadn’t been used in ages, and my phone started speeding up again.

So many people have such poor WhatsApp consideration too, and send messages to an entire group rather than just an individual. Our village WhatsApp has over 200 people on it, and 2 people are currently using it to arrange a time to collect some eggs 🤦‍♀️

If they become irrelevant (“Jane’s Hen Party”) or are full of tedious wittering from people I don’t know or barely know then I’ll leave. Why would I mute when I could just leave? It’s the equivalent of going to a party and when you are ready for home you stick earplugs in instead of leaving. If a yoga chat instructor says “I’m putting on an extra class this Sunday at 10am - let me know if you are interested” then I expect replies - it’s fine - 20 people saying “me please” or “I’m in” is fine. Another 20 people saying “I have church/a birthday party/work/“ is borderline. People saying “what time is it on” and “is it at the exact same place you run all your classes from” or “will I still need to wear my yoga leggings?” Or “lol idk if i can do 2 classes a week lol” followed by 30 inane laughing face emojis or “what day is this?” Is not fine. An avalanche of “humorous” gifs or screenshots of motivational quotes is completely unacceptable.
I don’t want a muted chat - people think they have sent a message you are going to read and they haven’t.
Admin only posting doesn’t work in a group you want participation in. I’ve been in shift swap WhatsApp groups that have had to be closed down and restarted because people were spamming it with happy birthdays and holiday pictures and videos of their kids and Alice’s “can anyone work my Sunday in November” was completely lost.

I joined a work project chat 5 years ago with 100 people on it. Project was over in a month. Stupidly I didn't 'leave' then.
A hardcore ten are still posting, every time someone leaves they discuss and bitch about the last one out. It sorted of reinvigorates them.
I switch off the notifications but it does make my heart sink when I spot it with 152 unread messages.

So this thread shows that there are diverse and varied reasons for leaving a WA group and if everyone just let everyone else manage their own apps/phone/headspace without judgement we’d all be better off!

The real question is why people stay in Whatsapp groups.

Well they don’t literally fade away, but I assume the poster meant people stop using them?

But you can mute groups, or put op your phone on DND but with exceptions made for your children’s numbers.

I don't understand this.

We have had people still lurk on groups and one of the braver admins simply removes them 😂

If you are not interested in the content, there's no point being there. You can mute the notifications, but you still see the group, and if you archive it, you still see that there are notifications. I don't know why Whatsapp doesn't put the archived bit at the bottom of your chats so you don't see it.

There was a group I wanted to leave for ages but didn't want to offend the chat owner. After about two years she deleted me from the group, I was quite relieved!

The tedious wittering - 'I can't go but I hope you all have a wonderful time emoji emoji emoji', 'oh sorry babes, why cant u go?', 'Bobby has his thing again', and on and on and on...

1. Because I don't care enough to participate

1. Left work group chat when on mat leave so I could fully switch off and enjoy my time off without thinking about work!

Why? To keep all your special secrets?

Because they’re fucking annoying and I don’t want to read other people’s drivel if it’s irrelevant to me.

why on earth does anyone want to trawl through hundreds of messages on a group chat? We can spent our time how we see fit and I absolutely don’t want to spend it reading nonsense.

How can all WhatsApp groups be annoying and full of drivel? Nine of mine are like that. They're either people I like and want to hear from, having a chat or people with information I need.

Mostly because I don’t care enough about the people or the reason for the group to stay.

I’m in a couple I can’t get out of but my heart sinks every time I get the notification. The sheer volume of them is soul destroying.

I'm in 2 nice family ones in laws and my family - we share the odd photo, bit of news etc.

The running one I was in was just full of insane babbling.

Mute them? I only see notifications for the ones I really want. The others I check in on once in a while.

This has just inspired me to leave a local WhatsApp group I have no interest in as it's one of those ones where a few people know each other and everyone else feels a bit peripheral . There was occasionally useful info on there, but also a big bun fight a couple of weeks ago. I'm not even sure why I still read the messages, even though I had it muted.

Because inevitably some boomer starts sending all sorts of links to shitty conspiracy theory videos or "hilarious" jokes that Ken Dodd would be proud of.

Or maybe because inevitably some (insert epithet) starts slinging around ageist comments.

What’s becoming apparent to me is that a lot of people have no idea how to use their phones.

Anyway, my phone never makes a noise, EVER! And I archive chatty groups that I don’t want to necessarily leave but don’t want the constant updates either.

But why do people have to stay why does is bother people so much?

@Scaredgf because they are! School class chats, gymnastics, football. All shit. 1 message in 5 will be informative. The rest are rubbish. I can’t leave them because there is the odd bit of information I need, like a time change. But the rest really are drivel.

even my family WhatsApp group is just an excuse to share rubbish like the news headlines (that I don’t follow because I am not interested).

would far rather people spoke to me directly.