The update means that you can see blue and grey ticks on your homepage, without having to click into the individual conversations. They’ve added a new feature which allows people to check whether people have read their messages or not, aka whether their mates/significant others are ignoring them or not. Gone are the days when, trusty Nokia 3310 in hand, you could say to yourself ‘maybe they just never got it…’įor some reason, the people over at WhatsApp have decided to make it even easier for us to check up on each other. On it, we measure how effective our correspondence has been and how much those we communicate value what we have said by the direct correlation between the time that our message was opened, when the recipient was ‘last seen’ and how long it took them to reply to us. How many relationships do you think have ended because of the ‘Last Seen’ feature on WhatsApp? How many arguments have been started? How much paranoia fuelled?WhatsApp is perhaps the worst mode of modern communication. The politics of the three typing dot bubble on iMessage and the last seen feature and blue ticks on WhatsApp are, without doubt, an existential crisis inducing minefield. When you simply fired it off and read the reply when it came in. Go to your calm place and picture a time before ‘read receipt’ time stamps? Those pesky little signs which let you know whether or not somebody has read your text, email, Facebook message or WhatsApp.Ī time when you didn’t check to see whether your message had been delivered, opened and digested.
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