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The messaging app can block users
Do you send your Christmas greetings via WhatsApp? Be careful, the messenger service threatens to block users who always send the same message. Here are 4 tips on how to bypass the lock.
What used to be the Christmas mail is perhaps the short message today. For friends, acquaintances and colleagues just before the messing formulate a few nice words, garnish the whole thing with a few colorful emojis and send. And since the Christmas goose smells seductive, it has to go fast. So: A "Merry Christmas" to all. It does not matter if we just send everyone the same message, right? Yes, if you send it via WhatsApp . The messenger threatens namely with a lock, as soon as a user sends the same message too often.
The reason for the WhatsApp lock : The messaging app wants to protect against supposed spam messages or standardized texts. Users can even be temporarily banned from the Messenger. Namely, if you get blocked in a short time by many people. Or to many users, in whose address book one is not stored, the same message sends. The app informs you with a warning about the duration of the lock.
4 tips to keep you from being blocked on WhatsApp:
1. Do not send the same message to too many people.
2. Make sure that they are stored in the address book of the recipients.
3. Especially important for groups: If you start a group with "unknown" recipients, they can be blocked by the messaging service.
4. Use the "Broadcast List" function. So you send the same message to different recipients, unlike a group, the recipients can not see each other. These can then respond in single messages.
