The latest WhatsApp beta upgrade brings status sharing to Facebook users. This is a blend between the two social media platforms, and some users will find this feature very interesting. Although it is still in its beta testing phase, this feature is still catching the attention of netizens.
Beta testers came across this feature with an update to the WhatsApp Beta app a few weeks ago. By the time it was spotted it was in the development stage and these testers couldn’t put it to use. But this feature is now available for testing thanks to the latest update to the WhatsApp Beta application.
Since WhatsApp and Facebook share the same parent company, they can be used seamlessly. Business owners will find the ability to share status updates made on WhatsApp to Facebook with just one tap of a button. WhatsApp hopes that users will find this feature useful, and in this article, you will learn more about it.
Here are the details concerning the status sharing to Facebook feature
If you use both Facebook and WhatsApp regularly, you’d notice the slight similarity between their story and status features. They both have the same concept, allowing users to share posts that only stay up for 24 hours. Within this period, a user is free to delete the post if they no longer find it as appealing as it did at first.
Now, the idea of this new feature that is available for WhatsApp Beta testers is that it allows users to share status posts to stories. So, if a user makes a post on their WhatsApp status, this feature will automatically share it with their stories. This might excite some users while throwing some off balance, and there is a good reason for this.
Most people fall back to WhatsApp to communicate with their family and close friends. Facebook, on the other hand, is open to a wider number of people, some of whom are not close relatives or friends.
For this reason, sharing your WhatsApp status to Facebook might sound like a bad idea. But, Meta thought this through, and they added an optional button for users. This button works like the status privacy button and when toggled on will permit the sharing of a user’s WhatsApp status to their Facebook stories. If toggled off, then there will be no sharing of anything between WhatsApp and Facebook.
Once available to the global audience, this feature will find its place on the status privacy page. Just under ‘my contacts,’ ‘my contacts except,’ and ‘only share with’ options you’d find the Facebook option. Tap on this to link your Facebook account to your WhatsApp account if you want to share your status between both platforms.
After the linking process is complete, all statuses a user posts on WhatsApp will be accessible via their Facebook stories. Business owners that use WhatsApp will find this feature quite helpful, as it eases off the stress of posting on both platforms separately. You will get this feature for usage via an app update, which will roll out gradually to various users globally.