WhatsApp now shows if your messages have been read

Damnit WhatsApp. Now we won’t be able to pretend we never got those messages we never wanted to reply to.

Yep, you read that right. If those of you went into a rage when Facebook book added in the message “read” feature in their messaging system, you’re not going to like this. Whatsapp has now implemented their new feature that shows whether a message has been read or not. Yep it sucks if you’re the type that likes to pretend that you “never got the message”. How does it work? Basically if the message has been read, the tick marks next to the message will turn blue.

In case you’re a bit confused, previously Whatsapp could never show if someone has read a message or not. It could only show if the message was delivered and received (not read) by the other party via a double tick indicator. The only way you could guess if they have read was by the last time the were online, which wasn’t so accurate much either. Well now, Whatsapp has taken the guess work out of it.

Not surprising that it’s been implemented considering that Facebook messenger already has the feature and they do own Whatsapp anyway. Other messenger apps, BBM chief among them, have already implemented this feature and Whatsapp is the only one, until today that is, that had not implemented such a feature in. Don’t worry, no manual updates are needed as Whatsapp has pushed it in on the air so you should have it now. As of our last test, it was working fine though the feature doesn’t really show when you’re in group messages.

Looks like many of you will have to be VERY careful about whether you should read those Whatsapp messages now since the old ” I didn’t read you message ” excuse isn’t going to fly no more.

Source: 9to5maac

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