What I want from WhatsApp

‘I just created a little group chat.’ I look at my beloved on the left and if I weren't sitting firmly, I would have fallen off my chair. My love is quite anti-Mark Zuckerberg (for moving reasons, I would say) and therefore not the president of the WhatsApp fan club. I think he was also one of the last Dutch people to start using WhatsApp, but he has come around now. Because WhatsApp is super handy, Mark Zuckerberg or not.

But I still have a few tiny, itty-bitty points for improvement that I, free of charge, will pass on to the WhatsApp company.

1. Out of office WhatsApp

Look, WhatsApp is so institutionalized that it has almost displaced regular email. It may not be the case in every field, but it is for me. But sometimes you are on vacation and want to be WhatsApp-free for a while. Or maybe you have a funeral or something and it just doesn't work out. Now you don't respond and the sender may not see a blue tick, but I don't find it very polite. So please, an out of office option.

2. Scheduling a message

Since we are using WhatsApp more and more for business, I think it would be nice if I could set the timing of sending. Also handy with time differences. So please.

3. Deleting a message

If someone deletes a message now, I immediately wonder: WHAT was there that was not meant for my eyes? Mystery all around. So if you delete a message, also give me the option to remove the text ‘this message has been deleted’. What is the point of that anyway?

4. Removing the text ‘forwarded message’

If I forward a nice picture, everyone knows it didn't come from me, but that I just forwarded it cowardly.

Thank you, Mark.