The whatsapp statuses were introduced in 2017 as a feature that imitated the popular stories of instagram either Facebookbut adapted to the messaging application with the green icon. This tool allows you to share images and videos that disappear after 24 hours, which are displayed on the ‘News’ tabwhere a circle appears with the user’s profile image. Now Meta has improved the privacy of whatsapp statuses.
You can now privately mention your contacts in WhatsApp statuses
With this update, users can mention more discreetly to friends and familywhich also limits the ability for others to republish such states. To mention someone, a at sign (@) in the text area. Selecting it allows you to choose any saved contact. Once the status is mentioned and posted, the tagged contact you will receive a notificationsimilar to how mentions work in instagram.
The interesting thing is that this mention is completely private and other users cannot see if someone has been mentioned in the post. That is, the notification only the mentioned contact receives itregardless of the privacy settings that the tagged person has, without the rest of the contacts be aware of it. They will be the only ones who can share that status with their own circle.
With this new updateWhatsApp users can privately mention up to five contacts when they post a status, alerting them that new content is available. In addition, the platform has added the option of react to statuses with a ‘Like’allowing users to interact with posts quickly and easily, with just one tap.
