New WhatsApp Application Now Tells You When A Person Has Read Your Message

Just a month after Facebook officially acquired WhatsApp, the messaging app is adding one of Facebook Messenger's most annoying features: read receipts.

Whatsapp, which boasts over 600 million active users, has been slowly rolling out the system overseas during the last few months. But it's now finally caught the wider attention of the media and people who use the app, after the company updated it's FAQ page to explain the new feature.

Previously, messages in WhatsApp had a single Check next to them when they were sent from a person's phone, a double Check signifies delivery. This didn't mean however, that the recipient had actually read the message. But now, those double Checks will turn BLUE once the message has been opened.

The blue Checks are apparently getting rolled out more widely now, but not everyone has them yet.

WhatsApp has yet to release an official statement on the change, but it did add a section to its FAQ explaining it.

Users can also now swipe left on iOs or tap and hold on Android to see what time a message was sent, received and read.

This change didn't come as a welcoming surprise to every user, drawing frustration from some that they'll now have to admit when they are ignoring messages.

Before now, users could find out whether or not contacts had at least opened WhatsApp by checking out the "Last Seen Timestamp" below their name. However, that setting could be removed. This one cannot.