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The largest instant messaging application in the world, WhatsApp has turned ten years old today, and the Facebook-owned company is celebrating its achievement on almost every social media platform. The messaging application, which came in the market ten years ago grew like wildfire and is now used by virtually every smartphone holder without exception. Through these years, WhatsApp has grown and evolved as new technologies and demands came through. Some of these features introduced by WhatsApp were high in demand, and every single time, WhatsApp did not fail to impress its users. Moreover, the service is one of its kind as it did not resort to using advertisements for revenue and ensured utmost privacy for its users. On its tenth anniversary, we will take a look at some of the features of WhatsApp which made it into a messaging behemoth that it is today.
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End to End Encryption
As concerns around the world about privacy and tech companies were growing, WhatsApp gained the trust of its users by implementing the End-to-End encryption on its platform. This move ensured that the messages sent by the user were not intercepted in between and were only decrypted when they reached the intended recipient’s phone. The introduction of this feature ensured that the user’s data was in safe hands and that WhatsApp was not misusing it.
Video and Voice Calling
As demand for more and more communication and social media grew, WhatsApp also ventured into other avenues and introduced features which would make the app into an all-in-one solution, thus enter voice and video calling. WhatsApp facilitated easy video and voice calling for its users and recently also introduced the group calling feature for its users.
WhatsApp Statuses
Starting with Snapchat, and then Instagram when temporary statuses with 24 hour timestamp grew popular, WhatsApp brought it onboard its app so that users could share links, pictures and videos with their friends which would disappear after a day thus facilitating a more dynamic and quick form of communication which was what the trend demanded. Currently, WhatsApp statuses are very widely used by almost everyone.
