Many of us, willingly or unwillingly, is part of a huge black hole, known as ‘Family WhatsApp group’, what do you say?
Family chat groups are a great way to keep in touch with relatives you may not get to see every day, that hilarious uncle and that cousins who live halfway across the country. But more often than not family groups can be highly annoying with those daily good morning messages, the factually-incorrect forwards and sexist husband-wife jokes.
Not long after there may come the arguments for no reason and before you know it you’ve muted it and long for a way to get out of it. This family groups once joined, cannot be left, unless you resort to being too rude.
Well one gutsy Twitter user, who goes by the name @The_HappyNoodle, decided to do something different. In a text that she later tweeted out, Namaah informed her ‘extended family group’ about her decision, explaining why it was necessary for her to take this step.
However, her way was smart and with love and may just inspire you to do the same, should you choose to leave.
She initially did apologize for not being active on the family group or for that matter on WhatsApp as a whole, but further highlighted that the content shared on the group made her feel uncomfortable and went against her views. Moreover, she also clarified that she was not trying to change anyone’s views and would respectably want to leave the group.
She later took a screenshot of the text captioning it on Twitter, “In today’s personal victory, I quit my extended-family WhatsApp group. I cannot fully express the relief I feel.”
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 (@The_HappyNoodle) October 11, 2017
Soon, the post went viral and was flooded with reactions. People, whose feelings resonated with Namaah, applauded her action and were very proud of her. Some felt encouraged by her actions and asked her if they too could use her ‘exit’ message.
Twitter Reactions:
Please send as text version so can copy paste in many groups.
— Arjun Kanungo (@arjun_kanungo) October 11, 2017
— Amulya (@amulyashruthi) October 11, 2017
This takes Courage. I’m proud of you.
— R o g u i s h (@RoguishOfficial) October 11, 2017
— Gadgetwala (@ankitv) October 11, 2017
I did this few days ago and life is so peaceful I tell you. 💞💞❤️👍 pic.twitter.com/gGxT4HFTz6
— Sabita Chanda (@itsmesabita) October 11, 2017
Very well said. I left my school group for the same reason. My parting words were “Leaving due to disproportionate signal to noise ratio.”
— Madhuri Vaidya (@madvaidya) October 11, 2017
Same. Shared it with my mum just now to show her how “I saw it on WhatsApp’ doesn’t make it gospel truth.
— ~ Ramya ~ (@ideasmithy) October 12, 2017
marking this for future use (I may have to use this at least 5 times)
— Bhargavi (@BurgerrB) October 12, 2017
Please provide the text version of this, so that one can copy and use it appropriately. Thanks 🙂
— Gabbbar (@GabbbarSingh) October 11, 2017
This takes Courage. I’m proud of you.
— R o g u i s h (@RoguishOfficial) October 11, 2017
Are you part of a family group you want to quit or did you successfully quit one already? Let us know your story in the comments section below.