In the era of work from home, group calling has become more critical than ever. The WhatsApp group calling feature, first introduced in mid-2018, has a much needed and much-awaited addition today.
The mobile messaging behemoth has announced that the WhatsApp group calling feature now allows people to join at mid of the call or rejoin if they are dropped in between due to any reason.
Facebook-owned WhatsApp has been introducing new features or enhancing existing features at regular intervals to keep its users glued to the platform as much as possible. The increasing popularity of various video calling platforms, like Zoom and Google Meet, focused on video communication, are fast gaining momentum in the market at the cost of time WhatsApp users spend on the platform.
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Food For Thought
The sudden rise in app-based voice and video group calls has forced the tech giants to pay close attention to communication tools and offerings. The skyrocketing stock price of Zoom Video Communication attracted the eyeballs of other companies who quickly jumped into the communication business. Microsoft, Google, and many other tech giants tweaked their existing collaboration tools to serve the need for group video calling. In addition, they have been enhancing to cater to the growing needs of billion users relying on group calls due to lockdown.
But the shady history of Facebook, which has been accused of sharing its users’ personal data with partners to reap more advertising revenue much time in the past, is quite concerning. Facebook acquired WhatsApp for a whopping $19 billion in 2014 and hasn’t released any revenue model. With new features, users’ reliance on WhatsApp is more than ever before.
Communication being the key to success in this digital era, can Facebook-owned WhatsApp be trusted?
You can use Whatsapp rejoin group call feature by following these instructions.
