the thing with group chats is they start out as consequential (we're going to an event! make a chat) but become architectural (this is The Chat) and i feel like this dynamic is hugely important and i can't think of any pre-internet analog but nobody ever talks about it
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the only widely discussed pattern is the one where every big group chat inevitably spawns a smaller "core" chat of ~4 people which seems to be a stabilizing number but when people start making & unmaking every combination of 9 choose 5 or whatever oh my god there are no rules
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omg steph if you want to leave the group chat it's fine
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i love every group chat i’m in!
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Cave & make a Friend Slack
. New channels for events, no need to figure out who to invite each time, creeping feeling of existential dreadThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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