Your WhatsApp status is becoming more like Instagram Stories

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• WhatsApp is introducing Private Mentions and likes to its Status feature.
• Users can now privately tag their friends in their WhatsApp Status, which is resharable by the tagged person.
• A new green heart button will now show under a WhatsApp Status for privately liking updates.

WhatsApp is introducing new social capabilities to its status feature. The messaging app will now let you add private mentions to your status, just like you would tag someone in Instagram Stories.

When you “mention” a.k.a tag someone in your WhatsApp Status, they will be notified privately, and the mention won’t show on your status. This is how WhatsApp’s feature differs from Instagram, where anyone can see the people mentioned in Stories. Privately mentioned users will be able to reshare a status should they wish to do so.




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