Instagram’s New Sticker Lets You Invite People to Join a Group Chat

Of all the Facebook-owned apps that copied Snapchat’s Stories feature, Instagram Stories are the only one that actually caught on, and the company has been adding new stickers and features to Instagram Stories to keep them interesting and give users more ways of interacting with their followers, and sharing moments from their lives with them.

After introducing stickers for Q&As, Polls, and more, Instagram has now added a sticker that lets users invite their followers to join a group chat. Don’t worry though, if you use this sticker, you’ll still get to decide whether or not to accept someone into the chat before they can be a part of it.

Using the group chat sticker is fairly straightforward. When you’re editing your Instagram Story, simplytap on the Stickers icon, and select the“Chat”sticker.

You can thenchoose a name for the Group Chatthat will be created for people to join, and that’s it. You can then post your story, and your followers will be able to send requests to join the group chat.

This feature can come in handy if you’re trying to plan out something like a group vacation, or a  trip out of town with your friends and family – it will automatically let you know who all are interested in joining the trip anyway (because only those people will request to join the chat, most probably), and you can then proceed with discussions for the trip, or whatever else it is you’re trying to discuss.

Akshay Gangwar

Greetings, tech titans and fellow literary time-travelers! I’m Akshay, your tech-whisperer and Harry Potter’s number one stalker – seriously, don’t ask me how many times I’ve read those books; it’s borderline unhealthy.

Working in the tech journalism industry since 2016, I have 7 years of experience covering everything from technology news, to well-researched resource articles. Now the Content Strategist at Beebom, I often pen down op-eds for our website, sharing expert commentary on the latest in technology, AI, and electric cars.

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