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
