To not understand WhatsApp group chats?

[reallifeboogie]

I've just read a thread where it seems the OP is in a WhatsApp group for the road she lives on. I don't understand why that would ever be needed?

What group chats are you a part of?
I've very reluctantly been added to one for my job which is very rarely used for work related stuff and most days every one writes good morning have a good shift. Wtf. I don't want 15 people messaging every single day. But I can't not be in the group because I will miss the very occasional important stuff.

I've got a uni friends group chat, a family one, a family one without my stepmother (😬), an in-laws one, a couple of event planning ones, and one with my three line reports in case we need to coordinate anything for work - we're out and about as part of our role so WhatsApp is easier than teams or email. Not that many, I don't think?

I love our street whatsapp… ideal to ask someone to go and retrieve the parcel that’s been thrown towards the general direction of my front door when no-one is home! (And arrange street drinks!)

I’m in a work group but I’ve got that muted as there’s about 20 messages each day

Then there’s various family groups.

I’m in the Mums Pub Club from my kids school

And a group of friends that we use to arrange weekends away and theatre trips, that sort of thing.

I'm on a family chat, an autism parents chat from a course I attended and a school class whatsapp chat for one of my kid's class. I mute the school one though as it's constantly going off with stupid messages.

Some roads have them as a neighbourhood watch type system. My sister is in hers and they started it after there was some trouble on the street. Now it's things like if someone has someone's parcel or if they see something unusual. One lady had a persistent man trying to get her to give money so she text the rest of the neighbours to pre warn them.

We don't have one for our street but we have each other's numbers.

I have one with my sisters on

And one with my friends.

It's easier to send one message to arrange something than multiple messages.

I also have a work one, again, it's easier to send one message than individual ones and for sharing ideas. I mute the work one outside of working hours though.

I guess some people are more into staying in contact. I have loads of different WhatsApp chats - school friends/uni friends/work friends/mum friends/Street WhatsApp/various different family ones/school one....it's endless 😂I like it because I love knowing what people are up to. There was a power cut tonight so we were all the street WhatsApp bemoaning the situation

I’m in 4 work ones 🙈
A work friendship group one
A uni one
One with my best friends
And one which only really gets used a couple of times a year as it is based around a certain yearly event

I have at least 30 whats app groups. To be honest I hate it but it's unavoidable and I need to them for information sharing. I run a sports club so have a group for each team. My DC are also in a number of sports teams as well as their school chats. I have a couple of friends and family chats too. It can be very overwhelming.

Ditto

I'm also know my dad is on one so if I can't get hold of him as elderly I just text one of them to ask if they can knock /seen him

A saviours tbh

I'm on lots. Maybe 10 regular ones

Friends. Family. School. Work. To name a few

I have a few that are helpful. One for school, one for a charity I help run, a couple for kids clubs. Then a work one which I try to stay well clear of but leaving would be too big of a statement! I’ve managed to leave any others which were too big and busy - general life updates go on Facebook or Instagram thanks!

I have quite a few, mostly different sections of the family ones. A couple of friends ones and a work team one. Everyone on all of them is reasonable and sensible and we only chat when arranging a meet up or traffic alert type thing for work one. I can see how they could become annoying but mine are good and WhatsApp is the one thing I’m pleased with in terms of digital/ social media. Oh Prime and Netflix too 😂

(1) school friends, (2) uni friends, (3) different group of uni friends, (4) my sports team, (5) kids' sports team, (6) neighbours in my building, (7) neighbours in our street, (8) my siblings, (9) my wider family and cousins, (10) my DH's family (11) bunch of friends who occasionally organise theatre trips

All of these groups are used quite regularly and appropriately

Yeah I love our road group chat. We are about 30 houses and all are members except for some very elderly.
Our last few topics have been
Borrowing a lap top lead
Borrowing a wheeley bin
Who owns the shoes the fox has dumped in my garden
And of course the perennial lost cats.
Everyone is so pleasant and helpful

Couple of work ones, a few family ones, 4 friends groups, one school for each child since back in primary, one for each child's sports team, and many for various events (birthdays, uni reunion sort of things). No neighbourhood one, apparently there is a Facebook group that I never visit.

Oh my, I’m in so many! Probably about 15 in regular use. Mostly sport or school related. None for work thankfully.

It's about communication.

If you don't like keeping in contact with people you won't find WhatsApp groups useful.

If you do, you might have WhatsApp groups for family, friends, work, kid related stuff, hobby etc.

It's easy to mute groups so you don't get a ping for every message, also easy to mute individuals within groups and you can also delete unnecessary messages, just keeping useful stuff ie the time and place where everyone is meeting rather than the whole discussion.

To reiterate, it's a communication tool

I love the one with our street. Useful for so many things - when you're cooking and are missing an ingredient; when you need a random household item like a bike pump and yours has seemingly disappeared; when you have too much food (last year, a neighbour ordered 4kg of courgettes rather than 4 courgettes on their supermarket shop); missing parcels; recommendations for various things; and, most importantly, organising street socials.

None. I deleted Whatsapp ages ago as it was awful for my mental health.
Just see the amount of threads started on here about how people have their read receipts turned off.

My family ( world wide)
DH’s family( local)
Our immediate family
Work
Book Club
friendship group

I’m in loads but have notifications turned off so only catch up when I’m ready

Our neighbourhood group is amazing. There's a lot of giveaways - people who have stuff they might otherwise sell, or stuff people have bought by mistake. So anything from furniture to pints of milk. Alerts about stuff going on locally - traffic issues, transport problems, local planning issues etc. We also have a neighbourhood advent calendar - people nominate themselves to be window no 1 or no 2 etc - all the way through to 24, and decorate their front windows so it becomes a sort of treasure trail through the neighbourhood in the run up to Christmas to see who has decorated their windows. Above all, though, it generates a really strong sense of community, and I've got to know many people in the neighbouring streets that I would never otherwise have met.

No one has mentioned this yet, but most street WhatsApp groups were set up for the first time during covid, ours certainly was. It started with people checking elderly neighbours were OK for food etc and snowballed from there.

Family,work friends( all retired now),sports club,close friends

I love our street's WhatsApp group too. People only post if they genuinely need help, like their cat has gone missing or a parcel has gone to the wrong house but we do occasionally use it to get together for a street party.

1 for work, chat though not actual work. 1 family, 1 family but no kids, 1 teen family for memes mostly, 2 kids sport clubs, 2 school classes, 1 for where I volunteer.