WhatsApp is a convenient tool, but it becomes very annoying as more and more companies use it as an advertising tools. Many unwanted messages and advertisements come from unknown numbers sending to me, WITHOUT MY CONSENT.
There are three things that I HATE most with WhatsApp
- Anyone can send me message WITHOUT MY CONSENT. They can just send message without knowing who you are.
- Anyone can add me to a group WITHOUT MY CONSENT. They only need to input my number in to the group and can force me to join the group and send me message.
- I can ONLY BLOCK a sender AFTER RECEIVING THE UNWANTED MESSAGE
These makes WhatsApp a GOOD channel for advertisement and spams. Just purchase a charge card, add a bunch of numbers sequentially, send the messages out then dispose the card. You have no way to escape from these spams and it is useless to block these sender as they are using charge card and will only use once.
Why WhatsApp cannot introduce some measures on the spam controls? Why doesn't WhatsApp give us a way to accept sender before they can send a message to us?
There is a simple way that WhatsApp can help us, just give us two options:
- ONLY ACCEPT MESSAGES FROM MY CONTACT LIST
- ONLY JOIN A GROUP WITH MY EXPLICIT ACCEPTANCE
If users like me who don't like unsolicited messages, just enabled these options. For others, they may disable these options and behaved as before.
What's your opinion?
