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WhatsApp is the most popular messaging app there is in the world right now and after scolding us endless times for staying glued to our phones, parents have joined the fad too, to connect with their long lost friends and relatives.
But all of us hate the family WhatsApp groups which we are added to against our will and are caught in an eternal dilemma between leaving said group and ‘Mummy ke muhbole bhai ke bete ka rishtedaar kya sochega‘. We dread the sexist jokes and hoax news posted in the group but have no choice but…to suffer in silence.
However, a girl, Namaah, gathered the courage to finally leave her family WhatsApp group and posted a savage message in the group before leaving it. She shared her happiness on Twitter with a screenshot of her message.
In today's personal victory, I quit my extended-family WhatsApp group. I cannot fully express the relief I feel. pic.twitter.com/E02iXtbLvh
— namaah (@thehappyn00dle) October 11, 2017
The message reads:
Sorry I am not very active on this group (or on WhatsApp in general). The truth is that there’s an incredible amount of unverified news, casual sexism, and unwarranted xenophobia that gets shared here that I’m frankly quite uncomfortable with.
Everyone is entitled to their own boundaries on these matters, of course, but I really think there needs to be a line in the sand with respect to inappropriate content because the things we condone in the way of humour become the things we become desensitised to. 🙂
As a person who feels strongly about sensitivity and social justice, I feel like I’d be doing a disservice to me truest convictions as a human being should I not voice these concerns.
I obviously do not aim to change anyone’s mind about this, and since I’m the only one who seems to feel this way, please allow me to excuse myself from this group. I am of course, available for individual chats as always.
I love you all very much and sincerely hope that this will be seen as for what it is and not as an overreaction or a rude or hostile move.
Tweeple shared her emotion, and lauded her for her bold move, saying that they would also like to do the same with their respective WhatsApp groups.
1. So proud!
https://twitter.com/RoguishOfficial/status/918078707788668928
2. Can I use it too?
Thank you for the courage.
Permission to use this as a template for my own exit (if I ever manage it?)— Aakriti Anand (@itirkaa1105) October 11, 2017
3. #LifeGoals
Dude! I just added "Express yourself as well as Namaah does" to #LifeGoals
— Kanwar Sodhi (@AnaabShanaab) October 11, 2017
4. Some shared stories of their own.
https://twitter.com/ineptikus/status/918321825217634304
5. That was awesome!
I did this few days ago and life is so peaceful I tell you. 💞💞❤️👍 pic.twitter.com/gGxT4HFTz6
— Sabita Chanda (@itsmesabita) October 11, 2017
6. That’s true though! Good luck with that.
https://twitter.com/pcytotoxic/status/918119302905069574
7. Here’s to a peaceful WhatsApp!
YAS. 👏👏👏👏👏Did the same to a lot of groups myself (for reasons these and others) and my whatsapp is a lot less stressful now.
— Mahwash Ajaz (@mahwashajaz_) October 12, 2017
8. I would have done the same. TBH!
Fantastic! *throws confetti on you*
— JD (@JediKhare) October 11, 2017
9. LOL!
If I write so much before I exit.. they will add me back & ask the meaning :/
— Saaj (@SaajJain) October 11, 2017
10. Well, that’s another technique
Nice!
I wanted to exit from such grps too. But I took another path. I just rebutted each insensitive post, now, none share such things. 🙂— Priyabrata Tripathy (@PriyabrataT) October 12, 2017
11. That’s a helluva story!
I quit. They annoying admin (cousin) added me again. I quit again. He added me again. I quit and blocked him and all other admins. I fear attending weddings now.
— KayKay, a wimoweh (@junkthegorilla) October 12, 2017
Go ahead take some inspiration from her and leave that WhatsApp group with as eloquent a post as you can manage. But, don’t blame us if they add you back.
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