WhatsApp wants to power its states allowing them to be shared to other applications. This Snapchat-inspired feature is now more widely used than the app from which it is inspired.
WhatsApp statuses are a very used tool when we want to share something only with people who have our number. It is a way of expressing ourselves in a very controlled way, but it is so controlled that sometimes a good state just stays there and we want to share it with the world, because now Facebook has made it a little easier.
Share your statuses with a single button
However, it is not going to do it so that a state goes to all the sites, only to Facebook and our contacts. If you have one of the new versions of WhatsApp, a couple of buttons will appear on the Status screen, from there we can share our WhatsApp status more easily.
On the one hand, we will have the option to share on Facebook, in the same way that this option exists on Instagram, showing that they want to continue promoting the content of the social network. On the other hand, we can share a status directly with our contacts to ensure that our aunt sees how we are having a good (or bad) time on the beach.
More independence problems between Facebook and WhatsApp
However, this can raise blisters to the vicious of their privacy who do not want Facebook and WhatsApp to mix data, which they have assured that it is not. They simply take the status and transfer it to a format capable of being read by the Facebook story creator, without too many complications.
Even so, Facebook has assured users that the accounts are not linked and that the data remains independent on both platforms, something that would help them improve the advertising that reaches WhatsApp in 2020. Still, expect to see many of your Facebook contacts uploading many more stories in the coming days.
Source: The Verge
