Friday 30 October 2015

Group chat issues

The majority of students belong to some sort of group chat on their phones. Be it organising an event, keeping in contact with a friendship group, talking to members of your class to help each other with work or whatever else it may be, we've all been in one.

Personally, I love group chats. It allows you to really be involved in each other's lives. However, there's no denying it comes with its fair share of problems. Many of which I'm sure you can relate to:

1. Organising things is virtually impossible: Trying to pick a date or a time where 5+ people are all free is possibly the most mentally frustrating thing, ever.

2. An early night doesn't exist anymore: Need to catch up on some much needed sleep? Haha, think again. The constant buzzing of you mobile phone lying on your bedside table drives you crazy. But you can't put it on silent because you have an alarm set for the next morning.

3. If you put your phone down for half an hour: Not everyone wants to stare at their phone 24/7, but with group chats you're pretty much forced to. After leaving the chat for a while, you come back and seem to have missed 5 pieces of gossip, 10 questions, 3 events and a small earthquake.

4. People get very offended when you read and don't reply: Sometimes you just don't care about how funny Amy's cat looks in a Santa Claus outfit, so you just take a glimpse and out your phone away. But oh my god, you won't hear the end of it.

5. Then again, when the tables are turned: When nobody replies when you ask something or say something important! Do they not care about you're problems?!

6. Your photo library is full of photos and screenshots: When you have to sit there and scroll through your camera roll endlessly deleting random crap which other people have sent you, it becomes a regular chore.

7. They make your procrastination even worse: It's so easy to start up a conversation on pretty much anything, and then you convince yourself its important and you have to keep replying. And before you know it, its 1 o'clock in the morning and you've wasted half your evening.

8. It gets awkward when people start bitching: Do you just sit back and watch

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