Out of all the recent developments in my life, my favorite has been the birth of my group chat. It consists of five long-distance friends who meme, dream, and scream together in harmony, and it effectively filled my middle- and high-school fantasy of having a group of friends in the most fun and accessible way possible. A few of the things that occur in the group chat are...
1. "50 new messages?! You guyyyys, I just woke up!"
You wake up, turn off your alarm, and at whatever point you decide to check your phone, you'll find that a barrage of notifications from Facebook Messenger is passive-aggressively staring you in the face. If someone from outside the group chat sent you a message, you'll never know unless you check the app they messaged you on regularly, because any notification from them will be drowned out by group chat squawking.
2. Trying to keep up with what's going on.
Because you left the room for five seconds and already the conversation has gone somewhere drastically different. So now you're just skimming as quickly as possible so you can join in again.
3. Your inside jokes.
I'm not quite sure why this is, but somehow, multiple contributors to a joke always seems to equal more things to laugh about. And somehow, group chat inside jokes always seem to be the funniest inside jokes.
4. Having people to roast your ex with.
Whoever you broke up with sucks, and everyone in the group chat has something to say about it. They also always seem to do it in the most hilarious way possible. After all, why get over your ex when you could laugh and get over your ex?
5. The drama.
Let's be honest: reading about your friends' interpersonal conflicts is better than TV. You feel way more intense emotions towards the people causing them, because this is your friend, not some fictional character. Hey, at least they can hear you screaming "Don't do it!"
6. Being able to soak in a massive sewage dump of negativity and not feel bad about it.
One thing I love about group chats is that there's multiple people to sympathize with you if you're having a terrible day and feel like venting. You can complain to your heart's content and since there's multiple people listening, you'll never be ghosted.
7. Getting help texting your crush back.
In a jam while texting your crush? No problem! Just send the group chat a screenshot and they can tell you what to say next, revise that poor excuse for a message you were going to send but thankfully didn't, and even complain right alongside you about how getting your crush to say more than one word back to you is like pulling teeth.
8. Falling asleep mid-conversation.
And then waking up with fifty or five hundred notifications directly in your face, depending on how long you passed out for. (If it was for more than two hours, you're definitely going to be drowning.)
9. Always being able to get a second (and third, and fourth, and fifth) opinion on your outfits before you leave the house.
As a result, you never don't look amazing.
