and how to use them appropriately?
Broadcast Lists in WhatsApp
The Broadcast feature lets you send a message to many of your friends at once, without revealing the recipients to one another and each recipient then has the option to respond to you individually.
What more? You can now create Broadcast Lists and save the list of contacts to whom you send Broadcast Messages. Broadcast Lists are saved lists of message recipients that you can repeatedly send Broadcast Messages to, without having to select them each time.
Note: In order to be able to send a Broadcast Message to a specific contact, that person must have your phone number saved in their address book. Just a way to avoid Spams.
Groups on WhatsApp
Groups on the other hand creates a common space where up to 50 participants can be added to chat and collaborate together.
- A maximum of 50 participants can be added to a group you create.
- You can create a max of 50 groups.
- Every group in WhatsApp has a group admin. If you create a group, you are the admin by default. Only the group admin can add people to the group chat.
- As a group admin you can control the participants in the group. If a group admin leaves the group, WhatsApp will randomly assign an admin to a remaining group participant.
- As a group member you can control your own participation in a group chat. You may wish to stay or leave the group when you wish.
This is a little less known feature I recently discovered on iOS 7 (iOS 8 is round the corner).