If you accidentally send something to the wrong app group

App groups are dangerous. Before you know it, you have a fight while you haven't seen someone in months. That's how a friend's father suddenly left the family app group. Something he didn't like and poof, he was gone. My friend texted him immediately with the words ‘act normal‘ and added him back.

Another friend has a family app where her sister asked for ‘the schedule’ of the birthday that my friend's family had invited them to. Whether the cake would be cut exactly at 3:00 PM and what the plan was afterwards. Sigh. When my friend sighed audibly, they bickered one-on-one in the app, and when my friend wanted to complain to her other sister about the whiner, she of course texted the whiner herself.

My daughter's class also has an app group and there someone occasionally posts something that has nothing to do with school. A performance that is brought to attention, a dance lesson. When someone asked to keep the app businesslike and clean, the responses tumbled over each other. One was for it, the other against it, and before you knew it, an old-fashioned playground fight broke out in the app group, splitting the class in two. One dared to push the gas, the other tried to mediate, a third found it all nonsense.

So you see: technology changes and with it the stage, but the group structures remain the same. And that is actually a familiar idea again.

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