absolutely terrified by the tendency of some of my friends to fluidly make and unmake group chats with constantly changing, slightly different but overlapping subsets of the same 8-9 people it's impossibly chaotic
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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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I was thinking about this the other day in the context of etiquette (adding someone without group consent, etc) and events that overlap but not perfectly with the core group
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yes! it's so fucking weird lmao i wish ephemeral/event-expiring group chats were a bigger thing i feel like having a more flexible structure as a default would help this a lot
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Maybe it's like, which church service time was "the time" or somethin like that?
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i think things like that (same school class, same church time) start as a random decision but get repeatedly reinforced by another external schedule or structure whereas a group chat starts randomly and is also self-reinforcing
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