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
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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 …John Backus added,
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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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Can disable that in Messenger settingspic.twitter.com/T3zr7LWu99
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I also use notifications to screen their messages before clicking on their message to let them know it’s been read
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Same. Sometimes message notifs get lost in a sea of other notifs though
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