{"id":180134,"date":"2016-09-20T07:31:47","date_gmt":"2016-09-20T05:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=180134"},"modified":"2016-09-20T07:33:25","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T05:33:25","slug":"why-you-will-be-banned-from-whatsapp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/180134-why-you-will-be-banned-from-whatsapp.html","title":{"rendered":"Why you will be banned from WhatsApp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp is popular in South Africa and abroad, with over 1 billion people using the messaging app in 180 countries.<\/p>\n<p>The popularity of the app lies, in part, that users only pay for the data they use on the platform &#8211; making it an inexpensive alternative to SMS.<\/p>\n<p>With a large user base comes problems, though, and WhatsApp states in its terms of service that users can be temporarily or permanently banned if they violate its policies.<\/p>\n<p>Detailed below are reasons you will be prohibited from using the messaging app, and what happens if you are banned.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Why WhatsApp will ban a user<\/h3>\n<p>Users who &#8220;abuse&#8221; the system or violate the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whatsapp.com\/legal\/#terms-of-service\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>terms of service<\/strong><\/a> may have their account temporarily suspended.<\/p>\n<p>Users will\u00a0receive a warning message in the app that contains the duration of this temporary ban.<\/p>\n<p>You will not be able to access any part of your WhatsApp account until the ban expires.<\/p>\n<p>Actions which can lead to a temporary ban include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sending too many messages to users who do not have your number saved in their address books.<\/li>\n<li>Being blocked by too many people in a short period of time.<\/li>\n<li>Creating too many groups that contain users who do not list you in their address books.<\/li>\n<li>Sending the same message to too many people.<\/li>\n<li>Violating the\u00a0Terms of Service.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Users may also have their phone numbers permanently banned from WhatsApp if they violate the app&#8217;s terms of service.<\/p>\n<p>72 hours after your account has been banned, you will no longer be visible to your contact list.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on WhatsApp<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/179748-whatsapp-cant-access-private-user-data.html\">WhatsApp can\u2019t access private user data<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/179566-new-whatsapp-features-launched.html\">New WhatsApp features launched<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If WhatsApp deems a user&#8217;s behaviour inappropriate, they can be banned from the messaging service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":131328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[35,2594],"class_list":["post-180134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-headline","tag-whatsapp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180134"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":180140,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180134\/revisions\/180140"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}