added by Ian Vanagas · updated 2y ago
The Group Chat Could Be So Much More
- As far as how humans connect to one another, what’s next appears to be group chats and private messaging and forums, returning back to a time when we mostly just talked to the people we know. Maybe that’s a better, less problematic way to live life. Maybe feed and algorithms and the “global town square” were a bad idea. But I find myself desperatel... See more
from So Where Are We All Supposed to Go Now? by David Pierce
sari added
i also find myself looking for new places that feel like everyone's there 
Chat, they noted, can be cozy, intimate, casual, revelatory, expansive; it also has an emotional undercurrent. “Chat’s immediacy emphasizes response, reminding us that we do not simply create and express ourselves in writing, but create and express our relationships,” the editors argued
from The Age of Chat by Anna Wiener
Keely Adler added