Jared Freed

I'd be on group emails with people like, and it was like G chat and I'd be at work and I would be on a group email and the group email would start on a Monday or Tuesday and we'd be talking about last weekend and all the things that happened.

And then it would be also getting ahead of what's for next weekend.

It would be this group of people in their twenties who everyone's single.

Everyone's looking to hang out.

You got a little bit of money in your pocket cause you started a new job and where are we going?

What are we doing?

And then,

I'd be on these group emails and I would write back and make fun of everyone.

Totally.

And when someone would go off of the group email and come back to me individually and go, that was fucking hilarious.

I'm dying at my desk.

I felt it through my veins.

Like I felt it.

Totally.

There's a, you know, the toothpaste out of the tube.

Like, you know, that's every slippery slope argument is like, we just want this, but then it will lead to all of this.

You know, like if we get group emails, that's great because it will connect us all, but it's going to lead to a version of social media that feels disconnected.

And you go, well, I want that, but I don't want that.

This is the story of life.

I wish it was just that way forever, and it's just not how it works.