To get fed up with people using big WhatsApp group chats for things that should be private chats

[AcademicallyAverageTeddy]

I get that there are bigger problems in the world, but it just seems such a thoughtless and irritating behaviour

I am in big WhatsApp group chats for my children 's hobbies. A place the teacher can share updates or people can ask questions- things like asking for a lift share or to borrow spare kit or double checking timings/locations.
They are really useful . But there must be around 50-100 people in the groups

But I just get so fed up with people who use them for chats that (in my view) should have shifted into a private message exchange. Eg. Today
A "Can anyone give me daughter a lift out car has broken down"
B " yes of course happy to"

Fine, a sensible use of the big chat

But then rather than switch to a separate chat they carry on

A "ooh fab thank you she's so happy"
B "no problem let me know your address"
A " it's [gives whole address]
B " great I will be there at 11"
A " lovely I will make sure she's ready"
b "just setting off now"

Etc etc

It means the important messages get lost in amongst heaps of irrelevance.

And yes, I can mute the chat, but then I would miss the messages I do need to see

It's very annoying, but I don't think there is much you can do about it without seeming like a nutcase unfortunately.

I agree with you but if you say anything you will come across wild 😂

Oh yeah I wouldn't say anything, I just feel baffled that people can't use their brains and move into a private chat as appropriate

This happens on work Teams chars all the time and it drives me bonkers. I often reply ‘I’ll direct message you’

It's like when people reply all 'lol' or 'thanks'.

Personally I'm not a massive fan of proprietary systems being used for official business. Especially when they require you to have a device and create an account.

Imagine if you had to do that to receive your post ?

Anyway the time to be told you're being silly was 15 years ago.

I completely agree with you. One of many things that annoy me about WhatsApp groups. But it's just become accepted behaviour I think.

Doesn't bother me.
It probably takes less than a second to scroll by, I'm nosey too, so it's a win. 😅

We're actively encouraged to chatter about anything on our work teams chat, but its for morale as we all WFH and take some pretty stressful phone calls.
I do agree its very annoying when specific WhatsApp groups which people need for important information get derailed by pages and pages of irrelevant info and endless photos and videos.

It's really irritating - about 40 people in our building whatsapp, anything personal I just reply to the individual, but noone else seems to. There's also a woman who writes long, long replies to everything, even when she has nothing to say on the subject.

I also belong to a community garden whatsapp - someone will post a picture of a flower - followed by about ten, "ooh, that's lovely" messages - give it a heart icon of thumbs up icon FFS.

Have this with a group for one of a DC's sports which is full of 'Grace isn't coming tonight as she's in a school show' and 'Sam will be late tonight as I'm stuck at work'. I am the only one who seems to just send those messages to the person in change.

We have a good teams chat going but actually in work people respect the difference between messages for the whole group and messages that should be in a 1:1 or small group chat

My favourite ones are when it's like "Alice can't make tonight as she has explosive diarrhoea"

Pretty sure Alice doesn't want the whole dance class to know that

One of the children’s class WhatsApps is like that and it drives me up the wall. Again, I need it as people often post reminders on it as some are given verbally to the kids, some on email, some on one of three messaging apps school uses, sometimes Google classroom, sometimes a newsletter. I appreciate the irony in having yet another communication channel in case I miss info from one of the numerous other ones!

Messages such as abc has lost their jumper/waterbottle/random toy, can you check bags and let me know if you have it. Instead of just DM-ing parent to let them know if they have it, there’s 15 quote messages from parents explaining how they’ve checked and don’t have it, followed by messages asking if they’ve found it yet, followed by an actual useful reminder, followed by a zillion questions about the pretty clear reminder, followed by someone screenshotting the original communication, followed by someone asking if parent has checked car/siblings buggy for missing item, followed by eleventy billion ‘it might turn up soon or have you checked x/y/z’ messages, followed by another message asking about the useful reminder.

If you’ve ever had to sit through a really long, large meeting full of people who feel they need to speak for the sake of it and the piece of information you need could have been obtained in a 20 second call, that’s that WhatsApp group. On a continuous loop.

I don't understand it either . Surely you don't need many brain cells to work out whether a message is a "whole group" message or a "message one or two people" message