Why I’ll Never Understand Group Chats
Navigating the chaos of unread messages, GIF battles, and endless notifications
Do you recall waking up to 247 unread messages, only to discover the whole thing was just about deciding what to eat at a place you never wanted to go anyway? Or perhaps it’s a whole sequence of GIFs that begin innocently enough as “Hey, what’s up?” but then devolves into a meme war that drags any productive conversation down into the depths of cyberspace. Welcome, then, to the great world of group chats, where communication goes there to die and chaos is pretty much the ruling power.
Group chats always begin with good intentions: “Let’s all stay connected!” they say. But what follows is a descent into utter confusion. The moment you look away for five minutes, you miss a critical detail-whether it’s a potluck or if you’re expected to bring something that doesn’t come in a box. By the time you scroll back up through the sea of texts, someone’s already made plans that involve you, and no one bothered to ask your opinion.
The Great Notification Tsunami
Notifications. If you’re like me, you probably have them turned off, because there’s nothing quite like that feeling of welcome distraction that comes when your phone buzzes 16 times in a row as you’re sitting in a meeting, on…
