Why College Students Need Something Better Than WhatsApp Groups
Every college has one. That one WhatsApp group with a name like "CS 2nd Year Official" or "Hostel Block C" that has 240 members, 180 of whom you've never actually spoken to. It's muted, obviously, because it buzzes forty times a day. Half of it is forwarded memes, and buried somewhere in there is a genuine message: "Does anyone have notes for tomorrow's exam?" By the time you actually open the group, that message is three hundred texts deep and long forgotten. This is how most college students currently solve their everyday problems. Not through a system built for them, but through a chaotic, overcrowded group chat that was never designed to help anyone find anything quickly. You post a request and hope. You wait. Sometimes someone replies. Often, nobody does. Not because nobody could help, but because nobody saw it in time. That's the real problem. It was never that college students don't help each other. Anyone who's spent four...