How many WhatsApp groups do you have active?

[bibbadee]

I’ve probably got about about 7 or 8 different ‘close’ friendship groups active on WhatsApp which are always on the go - friends from school / uni / local mums / NCT friends / general friends etc.

individual chats with friends. About 10 x 1-2-1 Chats but that fluctuates depending what’s going on in peoples lives.

several active chats for the kids activities. 3 active at the moment.

3 school class chats
2 support groups for a long term health condition
2 family chats

all of these are pretty active. Today I’ve had multiple messages on 15 different WhatsApp chats. A few of those groups there have been tens of messages. This is fairly average for me. If anything today feels quiet. so about 30 ish WhatsApp chats for me are active at the moment.

I’ve just scrolled back to 1st November and 60 different WhatsApp groups have been active since then.

I just wondered how many active chats is normal? I’m asking as I’ve just replied to someone who messaged me weeks ago but I forgot she’d even messaged me as it got lost in alll the other messages pinging through and she hasn’t messaged me since, so is way down my list. it got me thinking if that’s normal or not!

I'm literally the same! 4 or 5 Different friendship groups. Some event I'm added to half the time, work i have 4 separate chats, clients, individual friends and 2 school ones 🤣

No groups, Ive only ever been in one for a works night out maybe 2 years ago.

My WhatsApp is just 1-2-1 chats, every few days to friends & daily to DD.

Rural retired here. 14 groups but a couple fairly inactive, different friend groups, family group with adult and geographically dispersed DC, dog walking group, village group (invaluable for finding missing dogs and warnings about threats of farm theft, unfortunately not uncommon)
Lots of individual chats too.
I think it’s invaluable but DC tell me that their generation, 30s and 40s, don’t use it much.

Oh I’m mid 40’s and it’s my main source of communication! Same with all my friends

Daughters football
Sons football
Daughters pilates

Can't bloody stand groups, joined a few when I was in uni, had to mute them all.

The Dc participate in WhatsApp group calls every bloody day.

That’s interesting. I will be investigating!

These three drive me mad with the incessant inane nonsense:
2 yr group ones, one for each DD
A PTA one

These are mercifully quiet and just for essential info:
A governor one
A Beavers one

3 friend ones.
A family one with my siblings and parents.

About 25.:

10 regular friend ones - some of which are offshoots of the main group;
a couple of extended family ones,
a handful of specific activity ones (mine and DCs);
school groups
a couple of work ones
me + DH + all DC

And then me + DH plus every combo of our 4 DC, which is another 14

so 40 ish? Way too many and probably why I always feel clueless!

@Thehorticuluralhussie I’m 40s and it’s my main way of communicating. My DC are late teens to early 20s and they all use it a lot

One.