The group chat is all fun and games until someone loses their livelihood because of it.
How Group Chats Rule the World
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#72This is like hearing about life on an alien planet for me.
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#76> one has become such a dominant feature of my social life that it is simply named “The Girls,” as if there were no other girls. (The act of naming of a group chat in iMessage indicates, to some degree, its staying power, no matter how silly the name itself may be.) Thus “The Girls” has become one of the first places any of us would look to make social plans. At least, I think so — it is highly possible that for one…
Millenial here, my group of friends is probably falling outside of the norm, but there's been a distinct drive away from social media in general. A good half does not have any public social media like Twitter, Instagram etc ("private" being things like whatsapp or telegram). A good quarter has reverted to old Nokia phones and respond to emails within 3 business days. Sometimes I get a tinge of fomo when thinking abou…
> A good quarter has reverted to old Nokia phones and respond to emails within 3 business days.
How does this affect their professional life?? I simply cannot see that working out well at all.
> Sometimes I get a tinge of fomo when thinking about what others do with social media
I think this is because most people have no idea how to use social media, nor what they could be doing with it. It's poorly defined even at the top level - CEO on down. The "goal" of a new social media company is "growth", which means more users... but for what purpose? Advertisement dollars. It's all kinda backwards in my opinion. It'd like to see a social media company whose purpose is connecting people that want to be connected, in meaningful ways. And yes, they're going to have to charge. A good social media platform that was useful in connecting others and charged around $2-5 a month, depending on how well it actually did what it purported to do, would be something for which I would pay.
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#79Earlier quoted context omitted.
Arguably the best chat app in the world.
From a UX point of view, excluding calls, it's a superb achivements.
They fixed calls like days ago, were awful. But whatsapp is still better for calls imho. With the pace of innovation, even being very late in the game, but very focused, Telegram has very chance to outpace most apps in 2-5 years.
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