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Hey guys, welcome to my blog.
  I want to talk about WhatsApp today and would like you to come with me as we discuss WhatsApp today.
   Well I wasn't expecting to write anything about an app here on hive but I just had an experience with the WhatsApp message app that made me write this post.

I am just weak and broken, I have been using WhatsApp for a very long time now, I have never experienced what happened to me today. In fact, from time to time my WhatsApp app has always been clean and demure, no unwanted links, no spam activities and the rest.
Today this evening, I decided to go check my WhatsApp to see if I have any massage but unfortunately for me I got this notification right here👇 

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I couldn't even say a word because I was confused, like how? I have never used my account to spam before.
This made me uninstall the app then move to the play store to download a new one. After installation I rushed to open it but found out it's the same thing, so truly WhatsApp have banned my number from using their app.
After a long while thinking about what may be the cause or what I have done wrong, I clearly remember a link a friend of mine sent me. I know his intentions weren't bad but just to help me. But the good thing has now turned bad.
So I asked him how and what the link is used for, so he explained that it is a link that will take me to a website where I will be given some task to do on WhatsApp after all the explanation I decided to give it a try. But I didn't pay attention to the details that needed me to link my WhatsApp to devices, while on the website I had to link my WhatsApp to a device and code that was generated from the site, 
 Although I wasn't comfortable doing that but because my friend also was doing it I freed my mind.
  After a while he started send me code to link my device to, I openly told him “NO” that I can't be linking my WhatsApp to devices, I later stopped using the site, earlier today I got a massage from a friend telling me why I viewed her status without reacting or commenting, this made me so confused, meanwhile I didn't use in the so early in the around 7:33.
  Long story short. Out of nowhere this evening I got blocked. 
This is my experience and now I have learned a lesson. Guys these are the things you should not do to avoid being blocked as I was.

**Avoid sending spam messages**
This is very crucial, it doesn't matter how long you have been on WhatsApp, you can easily get banned if your messages are reported as spam to WhatsApp. Kee everything plain and simple to the people you engage with.

**Avoid sending messages to contacts that blocked you** whenever you know a contact has blocked your number please don't keep sending messages.

**Avoiding links that were previously spam or links without HTTP** in fact I will advise you to avoid links connecting you from a site to WhatsApp, some of the websites are malicious and can cause harm.

**Always have a profile picture** 
Always make sure to have a profile picture on your account, and also know that sending messages to people without profile, name or even their status also elevate your chance of being manually tagged as spam.

I just hope this helps someone here, but if you have been banned from Whatsapp, you can seek for review by going to their website, WhatsApp.com then navigate to the bottom and click on “contact us”.
I did mine and am just hoping i can retrieve my account.

Thanks for stopping by.
I'm @sylavsticks


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