A big change is on the way for WhatsApp users which will affect communicating with different groups of people. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced WhatsApp Communities will be rolling out to the service.
The Facebook founder said instant messaging has become "the centre of our digital lives". He said the feature will make it better for users to communicate with different groups of people.
He used school and work as examples of the communities and users would then be able to have smaller groups within them. This means a school community could also have one for each class.
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In a Facebook post, he also said new changes would be coming to group chats. These include reactions, large file sharing and bigger group calls.
The change is also expected to have a knock-on effect with Facebook and Instagram. He said it will be rolled out in the "coming months".
Mr Zuckerberg said: "Today we're starting to test a major evolution of WhatsApp that we've been working on: WhatsApp Communities.
"It's been clear for a while that the way we communicate online is changing. Most of us use social networks and feeds to discover interesting content and stay updated.
"But for a deeper level of interaction, messaging has become the centre of our digital lives. It's more intimate and private, and with encryption it's more secure too.
"Our messaging services are built around one-to-one text messaging - and that will stay the core of what we do. But we've also been working on building out the next generation of private messaging.
"With a focus on privacy, safety and security, we've added video chats, voice messages, stories, commerce, payments and more to WhatsApp and Messenger. With today's launch, we're taking this further and enabling people to not only communicate with close friends and contacts, but also with all of the different communities in your life.
"We built WhatsApp Communities to make it much easier to organize all your group chats and find information. You'll be able to bring different group together into one community - for example, in addition to individual groups for different classes, you might have one overall community for parents at a school with a central place for announcements and tools for admins.
