Mentions reach WhatsApp

Let's say you are in a large group of WhatsApp (if not several) and you need call the attention of one of the members that you are absent (you have probably muted the chat). The problem is that you want him to answer or separate something in common, so contacting him privately would only serve to waste time, what do you do? To call him? No. WhatsApp already allows you to use the mentions in the purest style of what is seen inTwitterA wake-up call that skips silences

This is the latest contribution from WhatsApp, which has been unstoppable for weeks. And the fact is that the novelties do not stop arriving, although many of them for now only do so in the beta or test version In this case anyone can already use mentions, and it's a really useful feature for groups, as long as the user is agree to use it. When you mention a person, WhatsApp will send you a notification even when you have the group muted.That is, a way to get their attention like the classic buzz of Windows Messenger

How to mention someone

The mentioning process is really simple and completely normal for any user of the social network TwitterAnd it is practically a carbon copy. Simply use the at symbol (@) to display the entire list of members of that group chatOf course, this helps to choose the contact directly by even seeing a thumbnail of their profile image, although it is also possible to continue writing their name to narrow the list until they find the contact they are looking for.

Once the contact name is selected and the message is sent, the user in question receives the notification, even if that group has been muted. Of course, the notification can get lost in a sea of ​​new messages, with no badge on the notification screen to help grab your attention.

In chat, the mention looks like an @ with the contact's name in blue. Same as a hyperlink. In fact, it is a link that takes any user who clicks on it to the contact profile of that mentioned person.

The contribution of WhatsApp is useful to skip the silence of a chat and get that person's attention. However, it seems that it is a feature still unpolished, and one that they could have made more use of, remarking somehow the resulting notification and offering some extra features for that person who is absent in said chat.

This makes WhatsAppchats look a little more like those of Telegram , where the mention and citation options were already present for some time. Now WhatsApp follows the same steps and allows any chat message to be quoted so that nobody confuses the references, and that no absent user can act crazy in a group chat.

The new version of WhatsApp with mention functionality is now available on Google Play Store and in App Store totally free.