While WhatsApp is the world's most popular third-party chat app, it's not without its fair share of problems. Although some stem from the engineering and governing of the app, others come from a different source.
Being the world's most popular chat app can't be easy. The developers issue an update and succeed in making one half of the WhatsApp population happy, while the other half take to other social media platforms to vehemently voice their disgust.You manage to swat one identified scam,and another two come along to take its place. You increase safety and privacy, and it annoys the users with the additional layers of security. It would seem that as a WhatsApp developer you're facing a never-ending battle of compromises.
As a parent or guardian, though,WhatsApp has introduced a new entry point into your child's web of protection that you have so carefully, weaved since the day they were born. It's this potential chink in the barrier that causes some of the most documented issues with regards to WhatsApp.Protecting young adults, remember you need to be 16 to legally use WhatsApp, is at the forefront of the modern-day Internet,and its varying platforms that connect everything. Chat rooms, and platforms that enable chatting to others, have been around since the beginning of interconnected computers, and they've all inherently had to deal with the same issues: other users.
Most WhatsApp chats are friendly exchanges between those who know each other, in groups or individually. However, there's always a sinister aspect lurking in the background waiting for an opportunity to invade a chat.Back in the day, before mobile devices,chat rooms employed an admin to carefully monitor the public chat. Should someone appear and start to steer the chat population toward a topic that breached the rules of the chatroom, then the admin had the ability to stop the wayward stream of words and either issue a warning, or completely ban the individuals from the room altogether.
This admin level user regulated the conversations, and it mostly kept scams and forms of social engineering to a minimum.Users could participate in private chats, but if they felt uncomfortable at any point, they could easily invite the admin and let them see what was going on. It worked, to a degree.WhatsApp doesn't have an admin user, or a parental figure looking over the chat stream,to quickly put a stop to anything untoward. In many respects, this level of freedom from an overarching big brother is a good thing, but it does mean that the aforementioned sinister element often has free reign over its victims,sometimes to devastating effect.
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