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Ways to leave Whatsapp groups

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    #32
    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,474 ✭✭✭Obvious Desperate Breakfasts


    I hate that WhatApp just lets users be added to groups without their permission.


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    #33
    AllForIt
    Registered Users Posts: 8,314 ✭✭✭AllForIt


    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »
    I hate that WhatApp just lets users be added to groups without their permission.

    Same here. Last time I was added to one I left immediately.


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    #34
    endacl
    Registered Users Posts: 22,248 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    Either you’re into WhatsApp and get right on board, or you develop a massive pain in the hoop with people adding you to groups and delete the whole poxy thing. I lasted about a month.


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    #35
    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,474 ✭✭✭Obvious Desperate Breakfasts


    Well, I like Whatsapp for the most part but addition to groups should be permission based.

    Now Snapchat, on the other hand, I loathed. It’s much more demanding of a person’s time than Whatsapp is, I found. The need to respond to somebody as soon as you open their message or it disappears, the “funny” face filters that get really boring after a while. Awful.


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    #36
    s1ippy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,980 ✭✭✭s1ippy


    Hawthorn Tree wrote: »
    I think we are/were all in Whatsapp group that are a chore or have become toxic.
    Groups that you should be in but no longer want to be in. What are handy excuses to leave these negative groups?
    If you delete your whatsapp entirely, you are booted from the groups you're in automatically. When you reinstall you'll have to be invited again.


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    #37
    bobbyy gee
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,306 ✭✭✭bobbyy gee


    go out with a bang


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    #38
    AllForIt
    Registered Users Posts: 8,314 ✭✭✭AllForIt


    s1ippy wrote: »
    If you delete your whatsapp entirely, you are booted from the groups you're in automatically. When you reinstall you'll have to be invited again.

    Does the group get a msg 'xxx has left the group' in that scenario. Cuz it would be nice to leave on the sly. Like sneaking out the door of a house party full of obnoxious effers.


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    #39
    Wanderer78
    Registered Users Posts: 28,944 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    Whatsapp?


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    #40
    irelandrover
    Registered Users Posts: 3,705 ✭✭✭irelandrover


    they really need to introduce tabs in whatsapp, groups in one tab, muted groups in another and indiviuals in another.


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    #41
    Wanderer78
    Registered Users Posts: 28,944 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    irelandrover wrote: »
    they really need to introduce tabs in whatsapp, groups in one tab, muted groups in another and indiviuals in another.

    ah fcuk that, lifes too short, havent found a good reason to download it yet


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    #42
    irelandrover
    Registered Users Posts: 3,705 ✭✭✭irelandrover


    Wanderer78 wrote: »
    ah fcuk that, lifes too short, havent found a good reason to download it yet

    If you dont have it then of course tabs wouldnt benefit you.

    im in a lot of groups that i need to check once a week. not being able to see them until i need to check them would be great.


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    #43
    salmocab
    Registered Users Posts: 11,303 ✭✭✭✭salmocab


    irelandrover wrote: »
    If you dont have it then of course tabs wouldnt benefit you.

    im in a lot of groups that i need to check once a week. not being able to see them until i need to check them would be great.

    It’s a good idea, we use it for the kids rugby team. It’s only relevant information with no spamming joking or memes. I’m in some with a couple of close mates that has not much important going on but isn’t full of nonsense either and I’m in some with larger groups that rarely have anything worth reading in. I tend to barely skim the last groups but the others I do read, although I have the app muted so only see them when I look at the phone.


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    #44
    Strumms
    Registered Users Posts: 24,924 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    I’m in one WhatsApp group with all my cousins on my Mother’s side, it’s grand I like them all, another with my girlfriends family, it’s busy, it’s funny, but it’s muted as a bit too busy, I check it once / twice a day.

    I drew the line though when my supervisor set up a work WhatsApp. On our personal phones. None of us had work phones anymore but there were people on shift for 20 out of 24 hours and the fûcking thing being visible when you are messaging friends and family in the evening and on days off even if muted was annoying. You come in on a Monday and before you’d log into your email.. “ohhh Strumms, did you see the conversation about...”. “ nope, tell me all about it “.. q their ‘annoyed’ face.

    I left the group and was asked what made me leave, to which I just replied “what made you set it up, I’m here 40 hours a week, and on email”... weren’t overjoyed about that.


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    #45
    Wanderer78
    Registered Users Posts: 28,944 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    Strumms wrote: »
    I’m in one WhatsApp group with all my cousins on my Mother’s side, it’s grand I like them all, another with my girlfriends family, it’s busy, it’s funny, but it’s muted as a bit too busy, I check it once / twice a day.

    I drew the line though when my supervisor set up a work WhatsApp. On our personal phones. None of us had work phones anymore but there were people on shift for 20 out of 24 hours and the fûcking thing being visible when you are messaging friends and family in the evening and on days off even if muted was annoying. You come in on a Monday and before you’d log into your email.. “ohhh Strumms, did you see the conversation about...”. “ nope, tell me all about it “.. q their ‘annoyed’ face.

    I left the group and was asked what made me leave, to which I just replied “what made you set it up, I’m here 40 hours a week, and on email”... weren’t overjoyed about that.

    fcuk that, they ll be wanting us to be contactable in our sleep soon!


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    #46
    Strumms
    Registered Users Posts: 24,924 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    Wanderer78 wrote: »
    fcuk that, they ll be wanting us to be contactable in our sleep soon!

    That’s the way it was going, there were varying shifts so people on shift across the day and night from 1 am until about 9.30 pm jeeez I don’t miss that job, the money was great, work enjoyable to a point, but the fûckwits running the shop... needed to be left in a field picking daisies.


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    #47
    Wanderer78
    Registered Users Posts: 28,944 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    Strumms wrote: »
    That’s the way it was going, there were varying shifts so people on shift across the day and night from 1 am until about 9.30 pm jeeez I don’t miss that job, the money was great, work enjoyable to a point, but the fûckwits running the shop... needed to be left in a field picking daisies.

    some employers just dont give a ****e about the workers, theyd create more hours in the day, and days in the week if they could


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    #48
    PGL
    Registered Users Posts: 760 ✭✭✭PGL


    Apologies if hijacking is not allowed, but has anyone worked out how you can discretely leave a WhatsApp group? The “mute” option is grand, but you can still easily see that you have unread messages, and I am a bit OCD when it comes to unread messages! One suggestion online is to turn off group notifications, and then exit group. But I have tried this on a dummy group I set up and it didn’t work I.e. the other members still were notified that I had left the group. I also tried archiving the group, but it still re-appears once a new message is sent in the group. Any other suggestions? Thanks!


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    #49
    Sonics2k
    Registered Users Posts: 8,239 ✭✭✭Sonics2k


    PGL wrote: »
    Apologies if hijacking is not allowed, but has anyone worked out how you can discretely leave a WhatsApp group? The “mute” option is grand, but you can still easily see that you have unread messages, and I am a bit OCD when it comes to unread messages! One suggestion online is to turn off group notifications, and then exit group. But I have tried this on a dummy group I set up and it didn’t work I.e. the other members still were notified that I had left the group. I also tried archiving the group, but it still re-appears once a new message is sent in the group. Any other suggestions? Thanks!

    Only solution is to abandon your phone, get a new phone number and possible consider a total identity change.


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    #50
    AndrewJRenko
    Registered Users Posts: 28,586 ✭✭✭✭AndrewJRenko


    PGL wrote: »
    Apologies if hijacking is not allowed, but has anyone worked out how you can discretely leave a WhatsApp group? The “mute” option is grand, but you can still easily see that you have unread messages, and I am a bit OCD when it comes to unread messages! One suggestion online is to turn off group notifications, and then exit group. But I have tried this on a dummy group I set up and it didn’t work I.e. the other members still were notified that I had left the group. I also tried archiving the group, but it still re-appears once a new message is sent in the group. Any other suggestions? Thanks!

    Does it really matter if others see you leaving? Here's some great reasons to get totally off WhatsApp.

    https://www.irishtimes.com/business/markets/whatsapp-s-decision-to-change-its-privacy-policy-causes-unease-among-users-1.4467464


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    #51
    Yamanoto
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,489 ✭✭✭Yamanoto


    Gregor Samsa wrote: »
    50 ways to leave your lover Whatsapp group

    You just slip out the back, Jack
    Make a new plan, Stan
    You don't need to be coy, Roy
    Just get yourself free
    Hop on the bus, Gus
    You don't need to discuss much
    Just drop off the key, Lee
    And get yourself free

    Great, that drum beat's stuck in my head for the day now


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    #52
    Lewis_Benson
    Registered Users Posts: 1,917 ✭✭✭Lewis_Benson


    Isn't there a "Leave" button on the group options?


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    #53
    gzoladz
    Registered Users Posts: 2,196 ✭✭✭gzoladz


    Troll it to end to get everyone else to leave!


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    #54
    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
    Registered Users Posts: 33,163 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    Just keep eating garlic and stop showering. Once you start to smell, they'll kick you out and you don't have to do a thing!

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



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    #55
    mistersifter
    Registered Users Posts: 3,135 ✭✭✭mistersifter


    Here's a way to leave the group:

    Grow a pair of balls and click delete , and stop being afraid of people on social media.

    Being held hostage on WhatsApp. Mental!


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    #56
    biko
    Registered Users Posts: 81,223 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Yes, just man up and leave. If the Brits could do it so can you :)


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    #57
    Quantum Erasure
    Registered Users Posts: 8,294 ✭✭✭Quantum Erasure


    New fone, who dis?


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    #58
    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
    Registered Users Posts: 33,163 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    biko wrote: »
    Yes, just man up and leave. If the Brits could do it so can you :)

    Probably better off doing it with the lies, ****-talking, hysterics and four-year wait.

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



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