Meta constantly adds new WhatsApp features and improvementsAfter all, it is one of the most used communication platforms in the world. We recently saw the arrival of Meta AI in the application, a virtual assistant based on the company’s artificial intelligence, but many new features have also arrived in the United States.
Now, WhatsApp has added two new tools to interact with the statuses of your contacts and knowledge about the platform: first of all, we can now “like” WhatsApp statuses, and we can also mention other users in the best Instagram style, for better or for worse.
WhatsApp statuses are getting closer and closer to Instagram statuses: you can now mention other people
With these new features, WhatsApp seems to want to become closer to a social network and not just be an instant messaging and communication platform. Did you go to a party with a group of friends? Now if you share a photo of this occasion on your WhatsApp status, you can mention it and it They will be able to share the status again.
The mention in WhatsApp statuses is privatewhich means only the person who was mentioned in a status will receive a notification and no one else will know that you were mentioned. The idea of this feature is that people never miss the opportunity to know that a friend or loved one has mentioned them in their status, and that they will be able to share it again if they want, to show this moment to their own contacts. .
It is a tool that can be useful, but also It can be annoying if someone abuses this feature and we start receiving messages every time this person or people mention us. You know what they say, with great power comes great responsibility.
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The other novelty that WhatsApp is implementing in the States is the possibility of indicate that we like a statesimply by pressing the heart button again, in best Instagram style. This way we can interact much more quickly with this status, and the person who shared it will be able to see who indicated that they liked it.
WhatsApp assures that both functions are already starting to reach users and should be available worldwide very soon.
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