There is no species on earth so invasive, or so insidious, as the group text.
The texts start off slowly, innocuously, symptom-free. At first, you may not even notice their presence — perhaps a pleasant ding now and again, a few uninspired memes, an incomprehensible string of emoji. Most resemble nothing more than a standard text with a few extra friends attached—and a simple lowercase “lol” response works just perfectly
But everyone once in a while, the texts metastasize into something larger, monstrous. A casual message about dinner plans rapidly transforms into a violent orgy of yelp links. Any sense of narrative is soon lost to a flood of Taylor Swift GIFs, emoticon chains and passive-aggressive polemics about Beyonce’s Lemonade. Read more…
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