Both Connect Users In A Group, What's The Difference Between WhatsApp Groups And Communities?

WhatsApp Community Features have been launched globally (photo: dock. Unsplash)

YOGYAKARTA Recently, WhatsApp launched a new feature called Community (Communities) globally. This feature allows users to connect with each other in a group. Community feature function is almost the same as WhatsApp Group. So what is the difference between WhatsApp Group and Community?

WhatsApp Group and Community Differences

Broadly speaking, the Community feature launched by WhatsApp serves as a "big umbrella" that collects several WhatsApp Groups in the same community. That is, users can unite different WA groups in one container.

Compiled by VOI from various sources, Friday, November 18, 2022, the following are the differences between WhatsApp Group and Communities:

WhatsApp Communities have more features than WhatsApp Group.

For example, WhatsApp Community users can make group chats have up to 1,024 users, much higher than the existing 256 participants' limits to date.

Not only that, community WhatsApp users can also make group calls with a capacity of 32 people, share files up to 2GB, and provide polls in chat.

Although it can create groups with more members, WhatsApp Community still pays attention to members' privacy. One example, your phone number will not be seen by members of the Community.

In WhatsApp Group, each user can find out other people's phone numbers.

The next difference between WhatsApp Group and Community is that Community users can secretly leave the group. Only admins will get notifications when you leave the group.

This is different from WhatsApp Group. All members will receive notifications when you leave the group.

As mentioned above, the Community feature can unite various chat groups in a larger platform, where administrators can send alerts to thousands of communities and become a feature that can be used by workplaces or schools.

This feature is much more practical than WhatsApp Goup because users can communicate with other groups that are members of the same community.

Every user who enters the sub-community/Whatsapp Group will automatically enter the Whatsapp Community.

However, only admins can post in the Community. Sub-community members/WhatsApp Group can only share information with the small groups they follow.

For example, school administrators can inform the exam schedule or holidays via posts on Whatsapp Community. Parents of students who are members of the sub-community, will receive the message. However, you can only post in the sub-community where he joins.

How to Create WhatsApp Community

Just for additional information, the Community feature is gradually available for all WhatsApp users globally. Some Indonesian users report being able to use this feature on their smartphone.

Quoted from CNBC Indonesia, here's how to create communities in WhatsApp Community:

That's the information about the differences between WhatsApp Group and Communities. Hopefully it will be useful!