Cerita WhatsApp

Don't really know how I ended up having more than 10 WhatsApp groups. There's one of the old office folks, one for the immediate family, one for the surau ladies, one for the mommies group. Yes, the list goes on and keeps growing. And this is not yet taking into account the personal WAs; with a dear friend, the husband, siblings and others.

Macam dah kerja typist dah. Always on the mobile touch pad typing away. And if you look around you, there is probably just 2 persons out of 20 who is not typing away.

We hardly make phone calls these days. Instead, we talk and listen with our finger - that's how sophisticated we have become now. For better or for worst, looks like such mobile messaging apps are here to stay.

Fancy having to scroll and read hundred of messages that just came in while you took a nap. And when you forget to turn off the notification function, the poor phone could go into epileptic seizure! I learned it the hard way after the screen of my mobile suddenly froze and refused to cooperate. Nowadays, I mute all notifications (for a year!). 

WhatsApping can be fun and at the same time it can cause serious problems. Selalu nya case tersilap post to different groups. Dah beriya-iya menaip, tekan the send button and you took one last peek. That's when you realised the big blunder you have done. Too late...by now everyone has read the message you sent. Mulalah gabrah...alamak-alamak...how larr??!!

Someone in the house (cer teka siapa...cer teka..) recently joined the WA group of his PRIMARY school friends. And I tell you this group is one very active group. In a day there'll be hundreds of WA messages that come in. I asked that someone if he read ALL those messages, and he said yes! Ohh my....bak kata orang neghori Juasseh mali, "osah okkap eh!!" (in BM you could say amat bersemangat lah) And on top of that all the pictures sent via WA are auto stored and now that someone has like 3000 plus WA pix!! Ini case tak reti nak mendelete lah kan. It really irks me is some of the pictures tu ada sampai 5 duplicates. Buang memory space je.

So from time to time I'd do spring cleaning of his phone gallery. Bukan bertujuan nak men-check, it's just that I cannot stand the ignorance in the existance of the delete button. When the number of pictures is down to a few hundreds rasa macam baru hantar phone tu for 3 hours of spa - scrub, lulur, pilis, wax...the whole works :P

Itu cerita that someone punya WA group.

I have this one interesting WA group whose members are folks from all over who have the common interest on how to perform umrah independently. I was made one of the moderators by the person who initiated the group. Yang ini pun sama. If in a day tak tengok messages, at times sampai beribu plus messages! And when you have all sorts of people in the group, macam-macam gelagat yang ada. Many are observers but some of the vocal ones tu jenuh gak moderator nak control.

Tapi group yang paling best is the one of Nissa's primary school mommies. Group yang paling harmonis even though our children are no longer studying in the same school anymore. Really like sisters we are.

It's actually much fun sharing in messenger groups ni. News is communicated fast. Kelakar ada, sedih ada, shocking ada, gossips ada dan nasihat pun ada. Seronok but have to exercise extra tact and diplomacy coz at times sans that face to face interaction messages could easily be misinterpreted.

Itu yang at times even group admin pun boleh sentap and left group.....

Oppsss....members nak kata apa lagi...terkebil-kebil post emoticons je lah lepas itu :P

My take senang je....tak perlu lah nak sentap. If you really can't stand it no more and need to leave group, a short message telling others of you intention will suffice. I am sure even in mobile messaging ada adap tata susilanya. It's just that we don't bother observing them.

So stay connected, peace....and happy WAppsping ya'all.