One of the largest free messaging platform What’s App Messenger is working on a new feature ‘Disappearing Message’. What’s App has already submitted the latest update through the Google Play Beta Program, getting the version up to 2.19.275.
The new feature Disappearing Message will allow the users to choose the duration of the message visibility, it can be between 5 seconds to an hour, according to WA Beta info.
After the time chosen for a particular message marked for removal, the message will automatically be deleted without leaving a trace of the message being sent. What’s App had just started to work on this new feature and there is no time-frame on when the option will be out for the users.
Although it is unlikely that Whats App will release this update while not looking at the advantages and disadvantages of this Disappearing messages feature, some negative implications the function might have ought to be considered. In India particularly, the popular free messaging wedge in the past have been utilized for the blood circulation of fake messages along with running specific campaigns.
In reality, Facebook is fighting a case in several courts in India from the need for linking social networking profiles of users with Aadhaar number. Facebook, which owns Facebook Messenger, Instagram, and Whats App, is from the suggestion on the basis that sharing of the 12 digit Aadhaar number would violate the privacy policy of owners. Furthermore, Facebook states that its Whats App messages are end-to-end encrypted and subsequently even though they’d simply no access to users’ chats.
Currently a feature which is being used by the users is ‘Delete For Everyone’ this feature helps users in deleting the sent message but on the screen ‘Message Deleted’ appears this means that the message was primarily sent and then deleted but with the new ‘Disappearing messages feature’ will complicate the tracking of the original message
Also, a ‘Forwarded’ label has been recently included to signify to an end-user in case a particular message has been forwarded or perhaps not. Thus, exactly how a’ Disappearing Message’ function would affect these problems have to be monitored thoroughly before the final update is released.
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