Reading this as my iMessage group chat has gone haywire. I'm missing messages or rather those messages are delayed by 1-2 days. Causing chaos as I am asking people to repeat or clarify their messages. Then I get non-sensical messages out of nowhere in the middle of the night because the context is missing.
Group chats rule the world
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#22>Salons and groups have always existed but why the recent shift to private discourse?
Because the public internet makes it too easy for people to sell you stuff, extract value from you, or harass you. Private chats are human-scale environments where understandable social norms---not commerce, algorithms, or formal rules---drive the interactions. It's an authentic experience.
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#24https://maggieappleton.com/ai-dark-forest
As AI takes over the public internet (the trees) the people will retreat to safe underground spaces where they know only authentic humans live.
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#25Group chat has been perfected for the last 15 years. Your uncle just hopped on in the last 4 years.
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#26> every group chat has a n-1 group containing everyone except that annoying member. And if you think your chat doesn’t have such a group, oh boy, do I have some bad news for you.
There are more like 2^n - 1 subgroups, i.e. as many subgroups as the there can be. If you think you're safe because you're already part of one subgroup that complain about the people not included in this particular subgroup, I also have some bad news for you.
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#27On shared rituals, the ones I like the most are 1. Good mornings. Where it's a norm to post "Good morning" or equivalent at the start of your day. It signals that you're continuing to participate and value the group. 2. @Welcomes. When a new member joins, they are @-ed with a welcome message by the users currently present. It helps expand the join->engage funnel. Some groups have a lot of people show up and then neve…
1. & 3. I hate all channels and everyone who does that. Useless and distracting. Hence I never hung around in general chatter channels..
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#28I have learned to avoid group chats. I don't mind actual in person groups, but either group chats I've been in have a serious veneer of in-authenticity or just sheer group think. I know this isolates me from a lot of people especially today who prefer meeting on discord but that's okay, it isn't for me.
Chat works for a lot of things but I've never found it to be that great for socialising. Again, I suppose this is atypical now, but I always prefer in person meetings or phone calls and probably always will.
Voice chat is probably better but since that usually precludes being part of a text chat in the first place, I haven't had a chance to try.
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#29A friend of a friend of mine showed me a group chat she was in of billionaires and millionaires daughters. Wow .
What is the billionaire daughters platform of choice?
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
Please tell more. How was it different than a normal group chat?
Aside from the usual luxury pics, planning trips and events, pics with celebrities, and high society gossip and boiling hot tea, these women are very sexual. Nearly all are married but of course that doesn’t stop them from having their men on the side. A lot of these men look like male models and the chat is littered with nude pics showing off how very well endowed they are. If you’re very good looking with good soci…
Why would I want a chance with them anyway?