A few years ago, Facebook – the big boss of WhatsApp – tried to acquire Snapchat – a fun messaging app. However, Snapchat rejected the offer. We won’t say anything here, but whatever the reason, Facebook loves to “copy” Snapchat’s features.

Remember Facebook’s Poke feature? It was a carbon copy of Snapchat’s Poke feature. As part of the love-hate war, Facebook recently “borrowed” Snapchat’s much-vaunted Story feature that was first implemented in Facebook’s Instagram and is now being introduced in WhatsApp as “Status”. In fact, even Facebook Messenger and Facebook now have their own “Stories”.

Also read: Facebook Stories: 7 tips and tricks you should use | What's the difference between Facebook Stories and Messenger Stories?

Without further ado, let us clear all your doubts regarding WhatsApp status.