Speaking about group chats, what kind of a hellish invention are they? Of course, I don’t mean the ones where you are planning an outing with a couple of friends, although I have never and will never engage in those myself. I’m talking about work-related running conversations that don’t have a scheduled end. There were a couple of times at my job where people tried to include me. I have ignored, banned, and deleted. And will never forgive the individuals who added me.
Even the word chat is annoying. I don’t want to be chatting. If there’s a task I need to do, let me know, and buzz the extreme ef off in silence.
Please observe in the case of Young Republicans how easy it is to use these gigantic, endless chats to destroy people. Once you are added, you become responsible for anything anybody in the chat says at any time. Why would you want to participate and put yourself at risk of persecution?
People do the weirdest things to pursue perverted forms of sociability.
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Political group chats are career suicide. Remember when Hegseth got into trouble for a signal group chat because the snake Israeli Waltz “mistakenly” added another snake Israeli Jeffery Goldberg who then published the chats in The Atlantic?
Group chats among friends and family is fine, of course.
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“Group chats among friends and family is fine, of course.”
Not even then. It just turns into an endless round of misery. Its fine for the first round to get the info out to a multitude of people, but then you start getting the endless dings as each individual person confirms they got the chat. The next round as a handful of people start liking the comments about receiving the message. The next round as follow up questions are asked, and on and on and on endlessly.
It is endless and absolutely awful. I have no idea why anyone in their right mind would even consider creating one of those nightmares, much less subjecting those they consider family or friends to the misery.
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That’s why I never participate and won’t consider it. I get way too many messages at work, and I’m not seeking more messages. Especially since most people have a very low culture of online engagement. Replying with “thank you” or “♥️” to a chain email, for example, is very rude. Including people in your chains when they never asked you to do so is as well.
Anybody who includes me in their chain is my sworn enemy.
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I have an ongoing group chat, for years now, with immediate family. It’s great.
Probably varies a lot with what kind of relationship you have with your family 😉
Would never do that for work though. Can’t imagine even *wanting* to keep up with that, for people who aren’t my siblings. I mean, I deleted my FB for a reason.
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–Also depends a lot on how you access it. I don’t smartphone, so my groupchat window just sits in my browser in my desktop. It doesn’t follow me around town or chirp at me, I just check in on it whenever I check email and stuff. I’d be against it too, if it were a nag on my phone. That’s not the only option though.
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