Whatsapp Status Stories
Our beloved whatsapp has a “brand new” feature — Status.
I don’t even know how to feel.
They removed the actual status and changed it to stories and still called it status. Just like that.
Personally, I think this new feature wasn’t necessary. Whatsapp is a texting app.. Like y’all can be cool in the twitter DM’s but people still ask if they could talk on whatsapp.
I ran a poll on twitter to get reactions from other people and this was the response.
Exactly. We have enough stories.
I personally think whatsapp should have done things like allowing users to retract messages or block old messages. We still have messages and old jokes still circulating from two years ago. We still can’t tell if the “happy new year” messages we got from contacts who happen to have our number actually remembered us or if it was just a broadcast to everyone.
I’m still mad that they removed status, put stories and called it status.
Also, whatsapp has a lot of elderly people using it. The unique thing about Snapchat is that it was designed in such a way that you had to be taught to use it. Unlike whatsapp. Now you have to teach your mom how to update a status that disappears in 24 hours. They could have left the status and just added stories, no point in calling a story a status.
On the flip side, even though a lot of people are “angry”, people are actually using this new feature now. And you can tell if someone you haven’t spoken to in along while is still alive. You can also start a conversation based on their story status. Also, with time, even though there’s a lot of uproar, we’ll eventually get used to it.
So what do you think?
