Things I don't understand

App groups, not everyone's favorite. I actually only like a few. The one from our editorial team, the neighbor ladies-bff group that I have with two friends living around the corner, and the girlies app with my daughters. The rest is, if you look at it very honestly, a necessary evil. The class app, the ‘are we having lunch at the office or not’ app, and so on. The worst apps are the large groups where you get thrown into without asking, for example for a party you can't even attend, and where all these people start reacting that you don't know. I think in such a case you should be able to leave the group. Since it’s always a bit of an unkind statement (I won’t sit with you), it’s nice to announce your departure, I think.

But anyway. What I don’t understand and what you might be able to tell me is the following. Suppose you’ve created a group for a children’s party. The content follows a fixed procedure. You send the invitation, the wish list, and during the party, you send photos of the ups and downs of the kids, then the expected arrival time, then everyone sends a thank you, and then the group is done. But then you often have types who leave that group. Why? You don’t have any trouble with such a comatose group, do you? Or does it perhaps eat memory? I also saw it with the class app of my middle daughter when the kids went to high school. Suddenly some parents left that group. As if they had to be there for eight years and were now freed from the yoke. Something like that. I thought it was really nice to occasionally receive a little news or photo from the other parents, but some apparently weren’t waiting for that at all.

Is there a I-leave-group-protocol that I’m not aware of? Am I just a sensitive whiner? In any case, I keep every little group. If they really become annoying, there’s always something like mute.