Dear GroupMe,

Thank you for revolutionizing group chats. Before you came along, we were stuck in endless threads of group text messages with no way out. Once we were deemed worthy of being a part of a group text message, we had no way to escape the infinite notifications that drained our precious iPhone batteries. And, of course, there was always that one dreaded Android user who made the messages in our group texts green instead of blue. Before we met you, we were forced to weed through dozens of phone numbers when we were added to a group text with people who were not in our contacts. It was next to impossible to tell each group text apart when it wasn't labeled. We had no way of silencing a single group without silencing every text message we received, and the idea of tagging someone in a text was beyond us. Life was hard when we relied on group text messages alone.

The day you came along, you changed our lives. You allowed us to label our group messages. You gave us the ability to chose a photo of ourselves as an avi and change our nicknames in each group, eliminating the days of unknown numbers. You expanded our creativity by giving us new emojis to use that represent our crazy college lifestyle that no others ever could. You blessed us with the power to remove ourselves from groups we don’t care about, and remove people we don’t like from groups we do care about. You understand our obsession with Twitter and allowed us to tag a person in a message. All thanks to you, we’re now able to silence groups that get too noisy without having to silence our entire phone. With you, we’re now able to hold chats with loads and loads of people without the risk of slowing down our phone or draining our battery.

So, thank you GroupMe. Thank you for realizing that group text messages are inefficient, and thank you for being smart enough to come up with this perfect, ingenious solution that has changed all our lives for the better. Thank you for giving us college students the most convenient way to communicate with each other. Thank you for allowing us to talk with our friends from home who now live hundreds of miles away. Thank you for giving us the opportunity to tell the whole sorority that chapter was pushed back last minute without having to send an email, which most people hardly ever check. Thank you for the chance to share our big news with all our best friends at once so no one feels left out when they’re the last to hear. Thank you for letting us discuss group projects with our classmates when we’re too sick to meet them. Thank you for making it easier for us to send pictures, videos, and articles to 50 people at once. Thank you for being everything that you are, but most of all, thank you for being free.

Sincerely,

Our Generation