Want to stay connected, get extra support, and share your guitar journey in real time? We’re testing out an exclusive WhatsApp group for Class of 2025!
This WhatsApp group is your space to connect with fellow guitar enthusiasts in a safe and inclusive environment. Feel free to chat casually about your guitar journey, engage in discussions, and have a blast!
Participation in the group is entirely voluntary. You can exit the group at any time. Rest assured, all official announcements and crucial updates are disseminated via email and the JustinGuitar Clubs page!
Feel free to mute the group if you find the notifications distracting!
If you join Class of 2025 group, you will find yourself in a big WhatsApp Community with many other Groups you can join too. There are hundreds of people active in all the groups already so it might be not that easy to switch to Signal or other social media platform now.
it’s just a nice additional option for WhatsApp users. Since the shared activities take place here in our community, I don’t think you’ll miss anything
So if everything that’s in the separate chat community is also here (which I don’t believe for a second), what is the point of having a separate community?
@Majik Why do you see it as a separate community? I see it as a separate space to meet each other, but still the same one community. We can chat here, we can chat there, we can even meet at your kitchen table and are still the same community. This is my point of view, but please don’t ask me any more, I’m also just a user.
If the younger audience is on whatsapp , and the older on the forum … So how can the youngs ones can benefit from the experience of the older members when they are divided on 2 different patforms ?!
I truly applaud the idea, really. But whatsapp isn’t going to do it for me. I dumped everything related to google, meta and the likes, years ago.
Signal is my goto platform too.
Ok, it doesn’t have the huge adoption (yet) whatsapp has, but it’s much much better if you care about your privacy.
I agree with @Majik about having two separate chat spaces. It is not a good idea for the reasons he mentions. I have written about this a fair bit on one of the Justin Guitar requests for opinion.
The other thing I refuse to do is let unknown folks have free access to my phone number. This is required on both WhatApp and Signal. I refuse to forego any more privacy than I already have done to participate in this forum.
Ooh! Thanks! My wife does our phone “stuff” since she oversees that in her work life among much else. I don’t need to care about learning it.
EDIT: and I misunderstood her! She says signal does not do what I claimed above
ok, back on topic:
This is key. If we have information in more than one place, we miss both the community interaction and possibly useful knowledge. From the point of view of JustinGuitar, you will have more platforms to manage.
I’d much rather go to ONE location (this forum) and know I have everything there. I would not spend my time trying to participate in two, eventually three? four? different locations.
The WhatsApp Groups have existed since 2023, everyone is free to use it and get in touch with others there, or not. I can’t judge whether valuable know-how was shared on WhatsApp and something was lost here, but I honestly can’t imagine that.
Participation in the group is entirely voluntary. You can exit the group at any time. Rest assured, all official announcements and crucial updates are disseminated via email and the JustinGuitar Clubs page!
Feel free to mute the group if you find the notifications distracting!
even to get to know the big JG WhatsApp community