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Every group chat seems to die the moment I send 1-2 texts there. Every single one. Old, new, offline friends, online friends, everywhere. What's going on? Are my jokes bad? Have you ever experienced this? If yes, what was the issue you found out?

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[–] Scolding7300 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

When it comes to digital communication, I think I might be a dinosaur. I have never used Discord or TikTok. My group chat experience as a teenager was on IRC.

Culturally I am also out of touch - I come from a time when young people were reliably progressive, and where there did not seem to be a huge political gender divide. I feel weirdly removed from those born ten years after me, who are now around 20.

Sure, I'm in a few group chats on WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger, and I know these situations in the abstract. But if OP is a teenager they probably come from a completely different world than I do.

I'm just not with it any more, you know. I wear an onion in my belt.

That said, I of course agree completely that I am the embodiment of youth in most aspects of life!

[–] kalkulat 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I'm so with you on this. Only much moreso. WITF would I EVER want to use stupid little computer where you have to type with your THUMBS? And costs TWICE as much as a great desktop?

"Portability" they say. Hell I went out-of-house to AVOID phonecalls, to live in the material world, not to walk down the street looking in the direction of my toes, missing everything going on around me, talking to invisible people. Pathetic.