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Seeking alternative compression. Hopefully wrong on average. Shameless. Started @getcognito and @bloom

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    1. John Backus‏ @backus Sep 7

      Groups chats work as social networks because of social pressure tricks: • Read receipts • Displaying "John was online 43m ago" • Continuous pressure to reply "enough" • Small chats can have strong norms (no outrage/politics) implicitly enforced per reply Quick thread 👇

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      John Backus‏ @backus Sep 7

      John Backus Retweeted John Backus

      Context on group chats as social networks. I have a handful of group chats for each combo of close friends (8 with @rsnous). I’ve heard many people talk about moving to group chats after the Twitter outrage machine ruined sharing in public for them. Thus:https://twitter.com/backus/status/1037919267763544066 …

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      John Backus @backus
      The future of social networks is creating a group chat for every possible combination of your close friends. Welcome to combinatorial chat purgatory
      5:21 PM - 7 Sep 2018
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        2. John Backus‏ @backus Sep 7

          When chat apps display "John was last online 43m ago", that creates pressure to respond quickly to people. If there is _anyone_ you want to respond to now, opening Messenger lets others know you could have responded but didn't.

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        3. John Backus‏ @backus Sep 7

          Accidentally opening a message you're putting off stinks b/c now you only have 2 options: shamelessly ignore it or respond soon Chats apps w/ "last active at" and read receipts remove plausible deniability, forcing us to calculate _exactly_ how friendly we want to be to someone.

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        4. John Backus‏ @backus Sep 7

          Small group chats (≤5 people) create a constant "are you in or out?" pressure. Everyone knows who responds and shares the least. If you're in a 4 person chat w/ daily enthusiastic activity from the others, they might move to a 3 person chat w/o you if you don't engage for weeks

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        5. John Backus‏ @backus Sep 7

          Small group chats (≤5 people) are good at enforcing strong norms like no politics/outrage. Chats implicitly enforce per-member participation. If one member gets political regularly and others don't like it, they'll prob move to a chat w/o them. This usually isn’t explicit too!

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