This article examines the dynamics of silence in an online WhatsApp community. I analyse the written text of an incident of exchanged messages amongst my departmental members in a Kuwaiti higher education college. I tell a story of an old-timer who remained silent during the incident and throughout the year. Based on a feminist research approach and Fivush's (2010) framework on silence, I show how place, power and voice interconnect in a dynamic way. I also discuss how silence can be used as a tactful strategy and a resistance tool. In this respect silence is powerful and voice is powerless.