Steffie Betts, an administrator of a busy Durban neighbourhood group, is accustomed to the perils of running a WhatsApp group, often fraught with drama, fear, porn and slanging matches.
Just as community WhatsApp groups have become minefields, so too have work groups, where companies are not hesitating to either discipline or fire employees who have brought them into disrepute by posting inappropriate material to the platform. “Many people don’t realise that WhatsApp is a social media platform. The biggest issue is that given the immediacy of WhatsApp, people often send the wrong thing.”
“The instances generally extend to where they’ve published racist or sexist comments online or where they have used social media to harass their employers or colleagues,” said Ros Davey, a partner at Bowmans.
😂and here I am deleting groups left, right and centre. So annoying.
lol social media junkie.