Do you look and see if your WhatsApp messages have been read?

[girlfriend44]

Only discovered the other day that you can see Who has viewed your message and when?

Now i find I am doing it and looking?
Does anyone else do this?

Only if it is something really time sensitive, not as a matter of routine

Rarely. Messages aren't necessarily unread though - mine show up on my lock screen so I can read them without opening the app.

Only when dd was in a dangerous situation with a housemate and I was trying to check she was OK.

Did you post about this yesterday? It’s getting a bit obsessive

I've been know to have a WhatsApp page/chat open but not necessarily read the message even though it would show sender the blue ticks. So no real proof it's been read.

I don't need to actively look, I can see the tick status on my message list. Does your phone not display them like that?

Do you mean in a group chat? I do sometimes, yeah.

Not unless there was a need for them to be read in a certain time frame e.g I'd ring the person to provide the same information if they hadn't checked their WhatsApp.

I'm comparatively old though ... I think there is much more agonising amongst younger people if they send a message and they see it is read but the person has not responded.

I might check for 2 blue ticks but that's it. It takes me an average of 3 weeks to reply to whatsapps and texts so I'm probably not best placed to comment.

Sometimes. It's handy to know if what's been sent has been received (two grey ticks) or read. If they chose not to respond I don't particularly care.

I've turned it off. I'll respond in my own time and don't need anyone to be anxious over whether or not I've read their messages.

no. because you can set it so it doesn't show you have read it.

and therefore I assume fhat most people have set it to that as well.

Unless everyone I know is an exception to your rule I dont think that's a valid assumption

Looking down my list every single message I've sent except to some large groups has a blue tick.

I'd be surprised if having it turned off is th most common option.

A few people on my Whatsapp have it set to not show if it's been read. I can also read messages on my lockscreen, so I might have read the message without opening Whatsapp. So you wouldn't know if I had read it or not.

Not unless there was a need for them to be read in a certain time frame e.g I'd ring the person to provide the same information if they hadn't checked their WhatsApp

Same

I can also read messages on my lockscreen, so I might have read the message without opening Whatsapp

Does that actually show them as read though? I thought not, but I may be wrong.

No, if you read the message on your lock screen without opening Whatsapp the messages don't show as read.

Yes I like to see whose read it in a group chat.

Rarely and never in group chats.

Occasionally. I was going to remove a message I sent late the other night, but I could see he'd already read it so there was no point. Still, he's still speaking to me.