WhatsApp has launched a new feature dissapearing messages, where messages can now disappear automatically in several options. Mark Zuckerberg was also ridiculed by netizens to help those who cheat.
"We're rolling out a new dissapearing messages option on WhatsApp today so you'll be able to make all new messages disappear by default after 24 hours, 7 days or 90 days," Zuckerberg wrote on Facebook.
"Not all messages have to last forever," he added in the brief announcement. Previously, messages on WhatsApp were designed to only disappear after 7 days.
The post was flooded with hundreds of thousands of likes and also more than 68 thousand comments from internet users. Some comments from netizens were funny or intended as a joke about the new features of WhatsApp.
"Wow, you actually helped my partner cheat. So I had to check his cellphone in less than 90 days," wrote a comment that received many reactions.
"On behalf of unfaithful spouses, I thank you for this innovation of yours," wrote another. "An application for cheaters," said the next netizen.
"This is a good thing, Mark. Messages do disappear as fast as love and money these days," wrote another comment that also reaped thousands of reactions.
Some also left messages so that WhatsApp would later add other features that users have long coveted. "Can we also leave the WhatsApp group unnoticed?"
"It doesn't make sense that we can't edit captions on WhatsApp statuses. So if there are typos, we have to delete them and repost. How can this still happen in 2021? Mark Zuckerberg, fix this."