Friendship Day 2025: How To Use Meta AI On WhatsApp To Create Custom Pods, Images, & Messages

As India marks Friendship Day 2025 today, Sunday, August 3, millions across the country are celebrating the bonds that define their emotional well-being: friends who stood by them, laughed with them, fought with them, and, more often than not, grew with them.

But this year, the way we express friendship has evolved beyond greeting cards and emojis. With the rise of generative AI tools on everyday platforms like WhatsApp, users can now craft deeply personal and visually striking content to honour their friendships, within seconds.

Enter Meta AI, the artificial intelligence assistant now integrated into WhatsApp, Instagram, and Messenger, capable of generating custom messages, digital postcards, WhatsApp statuses, and even full-fledged “Friendship Pods” designed to celebrate your closest connections.

While the concept of Friendship Day traces its commercial origins to the 1930s America, via Hallmark Cards, it found its strongest resonance in South Asian countries like India and Bangladesh, where friendship bracelets, handwritten notes, and social media shoutouts have long been part of the tradition.

Now, Friendship Day meets the AI era. Instead of searching endlessly for the right words or spending hours designing visuals, users can now simply ask Meta AI to create everything from image quotes to story captions, customised group content, or even themed virtual parties.

What Is a “Friendship Pod”?

One of the more interactive experiences enabled by Meta AI this year is the concept of a Friendship Pod—a curated, AI-generated package of:

• Personalised quote cards

• Group names and themes

• Photo memory edits

• Suggested captions and messages

• Editable WhatsApp status chains

These Pods are especially popular among college students, workplace teams, and long-distance friend groups.

How to Use Meta AI on WhatsApp to Celebrate Friendship Day

1. Open WhatsApp and tap the Meta AI icon (available in the search bar or new chat options for most users in India).

1. Start a prompt such as:

   • “Create a Friendship Day image with a quote about childhood friends.”

   • “Generate 5 poetic WhatsApp statuses for Friendship Day.”

   • “Design a digital card for my best friend with beach memories.”

2. Meta AI will respond with multiple design or text options. Users can download, edit, or directly forward the content to individual chats or groups.

Additionally, users can ask for Instagram-style captions, sibling-to-friend tributes, or even quotes by philosophers or pop culture icons.

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For example:

• “Give me a Rumi quote about friendship with a sunset background.”

• “Design a meme-style card about how friends roast each other.”

  

The experience is powered by Meta’s in-house AI tools:

• Emu, for real-time image generation, stickers, and stylised visuals.

• LLaMA 3, Meta’s large language model, which handles conversational prompts and text creation.

• Whisper-like voice tools for voice-note transcription and status suggestions.

These technologies are designed not only to be creative but context-aware, allowing for regionally relevant phrases, emotional tone adjustments, and even support for multiple Indian languages.

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What makes Meta AI’s Friendship Day toolkit stand out is its accessibility. No design skills are required, and users as young as 13 are creating vibrant, humorous, or touching tributes for their friends.