So I'm in college, and it's pretty hard to get people to like something that is different. So when BBM went cross platform I knew it wouldn't benefit me much because I knew none of my friends would use it. So for the most part we just kept to our usual method of just having a group sms. Well it was terrible and just was a mess trying to get the message out to everyone. So finally today I got everyone to try be through a series of persuasive techniques. So ever since I got everyone on it has been NON STOP chatter between us. It's been going on for a good 12-15 hrs of just talking to each other. They have been using emoticons, channels, and the ever so useful picture sharing method. I love it and I like what BBM has become. However there has been a few things that I think could be implemented to make it better.
1. Some sort of like mechanism in the chat. I think if a like option like Face book's would be great. I think it should show who liked. It's simple but it would decrease the amount of unnecessary messages that are sent.
2. Some sort of function that turns off the notifications of the chat but does not take you out of the chat. I think that this is important because there were times when I was in class or a meeting and kept receiving notifications, making my pocket uncomfortable.
3. A way to exclude people in the group from a particular chat. While try to have a conversation about a project with group members, our messages while, in a different thread, were being received by everyone in the group. This was annoying to the people who cared nothing for it.
I hope I'm not beating a dead horse here, but I just think these should be put in the next update. I hope I'm not late. I have a new respect for BBM, and I see the many capabilities of it.
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