Information About New Technology

It’s time to reserve your WhatsApp username When someone new walks into your life – a classmate, a neighbor, someone you meet at an event – sharing a phone number can feel like a big step. That’s because a phone number is personal and it’s tied to so many parts of your life. Sometimes you just want to chat without handing over your digits. This is also true for group conversations. You want to join the parent chat for the soccer team but you’re not ready to give your phone number to people you've never met. That's why we're introducing usernames for WhatsApp. Starting this week, you can reserve a username to use later this year when we launch this feature. With over three billion people on WhatsApp a lot of names overlap, which is why we're opening reservations early so everyone has the opportunity to select the username that matters to them. For most people, choosing a WhatsApp username should be something unique that only people you want to contact you will know. If y...