Why did you leave the group chat?

Why'd You Push That Button?

Vox Media Podcast Network

Society & Culture, Arts, Technology, Design

4.4 • 683 Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2018

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Some of us love our group chats. Others of us hate them and would love nothing more than to leave them all. But why do we want to leave? Maybe you’ve had someone leave a group without giving you a reason as to why, and maybe it hurt a little bit. Vox.com’s Kaitlyn Tiffany and The Verge's Ashley Carman are here to help you work through that pain with this episode of Why’d You Push That Button. First, they chat with Ashley's friend Liz who tells us about her current and past group chat drama. Then Kaitlyn interviews Maggie Lange, who has written for GQ about never leaving group chats, ever. Kaitlyn and Ashley then take all their concerns to Asha Sharma, director of product management for Messenger, who tells us all about why people actually leave group chats and what the teens are up to these days. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:13.7	forward to this episode for a long time. It is about why people leave their group chat.
1:19.4	It is about whether you are permitted to leave the group chat, I think, at its heart.
1:23.5	We're going to give everybody some ground rules for how to be decent human beings this
1:27.3	week. That's how we do. I'm hoping we'd come with some ground rules, but you know, I can't guarantee it.
1:32.3	This is going to be, I think, one of those episodes, like similar to when we talked about read receipts,
1:36.8	where by the end, I feel like I'm basically crying, just thinking about how cruel people are to each other in such a blazze way. So true. It's so true. Okay.
1:46.9	So for those who are unacquainted with group chats, I define it as just a group of two or more.
1:52.5	So three people, three and up people participating in a chat. Lots of different apps exist where
1:57.9	you can have group chats. It can be Messenger on Facebook. It can be iMessage. It can be just SMS. It can be Slack. It can be group me. It can be Twitter DMs.
2:07.7	It can be Instagram DMs. Literally, you can establish a group chat anywhere you want on the
2:13.5	internet. It can get a little out of control. There's just like a high level of variability between like how much any given person wants
2:21.7	to be involved in a group chat during the day.
2:23.9	Even if Ashley and I have the same level of affection for each other, which of course we do.
2:28.0	100% equal 50-50 completely.
2:31.1	It's totally possible that she does not want to receive as many slacks from me as she
2:36.2	does. And I think a crucial thing we need to mention here is also that you can get added to groups,
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