No More Groupchats
Summary
Group chats have gotten out of control, according to a young rider who tells Kareem she's drowning in 125 texts a day from a group that started as a simple fair meetup. The real problem isn't the volume. It's that you can't consent to being added, and leaving means social death. She'd get screenshots of her exit sent back with a "Hey, Rachel, what the..." The solution? Just text her directly. She'll pop in for engagements and big news, but otherwise, group chats feel like communities she never agreed to join.
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So what's your take? Okay, I think that there should be no more group chats. 100% disagree. Okay, because I think what happened is that you and I are different because young people respectfully, we have a different thing going on.
What's that? They are making group chats for legit anything, and I'm finding it challenging because something will start as like, "Oh, we're going to the fair," but then like six months later, I'm getting 125 texts a day in the fair group chat.
Yeah. That are saying like, "Oh, um, Trump got shot," whatever. Like, I don't want to see that in my group chats. That I never, never. You can't consent to being in a group chat. No one ever asks like, "Oh, do you want to be in here for the rest of your life?"
It's true. It's like a nightmare.
Okay, I'm with you on this one. And then you can't leave. Wait, you can leave.
No, because then they'll send me a screenshot of me exiting group chat, go, "Hey, Rachel, what the..." and then I'll have to express that like, "Oh, I actually don't want to be a part of this community anymore." It is a community. If someone got engaged or something, I'll bop in, but generally it's like, I really don't care what's going on in there. If you want me to know, text me.