Max Reid

And I think you saw at that moment both a sort of bottom-up and a top-down move to take a lot of the social interaction that had previously been happening on public platforms like Facebook or Instagram or Twitter and move it into private group chats.

And I think you saw at that moment both a sort of bottom-up and a top-down move to take a lot of the social interaction that had previously been happening on public platforms like Facebook or Instagram or Twitter and move it into private group chats.

And I think you saw at that moment both a sort of bottom-up and a top-down move to take a lot of the social interaction that had previously been happening on public platforms like Facebook or Instagram or Twitter and move it into private group chats.

Yeah, it is. I mean, I am a writer who works from home, which means I'm always looking for reasons to procrastinate and not do my work. So I my full time job is keeping up on group chats. But my wife, with whom I'm in a bunch of these chats, has a real job and works quite hard at it and constantly says she comes back to like 60, 70 unread messages. And she's like, this is too overwhelming.

Yeah, it is. I mean, I am a writer who works from home, which means I'm always looking for reasons to procrastinate and not do my work. So I my full time job is keeping up on group chats. But my wife, with whom I'm in a bunch of these chats, has a real job and works quite hard at it and constantly says she comes back to like 60, 70 unread messages. And she's like, this is too overwhelming.

Yeah, it is. I mean, I am a writer who works from home, which means I'm always looking for reasons to procrastinate and not do my work. So I my full time job is keeping up on group chats. But my wife, with whom I'm in a bunch of these chats, has a real job and works quite hard at it and constantly says she comes back to like 60, 70 unread messages. And she's like, this is too overwhelming.

I just can't. I'm not going to read all these messages. I'm not going to reply immediately. And I think that's probably true for a lot of people. I think if you made the mistake of marrying someone whose job is computer all the time.

I just can't. I'm not going to read all these messages. I'm not going to reply immediately. And I think that's probably true for a lot of people. I think if you made the mistake of marrying someone whose job is computer all the time.

I just can't. I'm not going to read all these messages. I'm not going to reply immediately. And I think that's probably true for a lot of people. I think if you made the mistake of marrying someone whose job is computer all the time.

Then probably you're even worse at it.

Then probably you're even worse at it.

Then probably you're even worse at it.

Yeah, I think it's hard not to notice that the increase, at least the perceived increase in the amount of time we spend in group chats, the amount of messages we send in group chats seem to happen during a time when most of us, many of us were trapped inside our houses or at the very least sort of trapped inside our cities. We weren't visiting friends who lived far away.

Yeah, I think it's hard not to notice that the increase, at least the perceived increase in the amount of time we spend in group chats, the amount of messages we send in group chats seem to happen during a time when most of us, many of us were trapped inside our houses or at the very least sort of trapped inside our cities. We weren't visiting friends who lived far away.

Yeah, I think it's hard not to notice that the increase, at least the perceived increase in the amount of time we spend in group chats, the amount of messages we send in group chats seem to happen during a time when most of us, many of us were trapped inside our houses or at the very least sort of trapped inside our cities. We weren't visiting friends who lived far away.

We were sort of desperate for socializing with people and group chats were really important. easy to hand way of doing that. And a little bit like working from home, it's something that hasn't gone away, even as the barriers to in-person interaction have gone away.

We were sort of desperate for socializing with people and group chats were really important. easy to hand way of doing that. And a little bit like working from home, it's something that hasn't gone away, even as the barriers to in-person interaction have gone away.

We were sort of desperate for socializing with people and group chats were really important. easy to hand way of doing that. And a little bit like working from home, it's something that hasn't gone away, even as the barriers to in-person interaction have gone away.

Oh, totally. I mean, I think about it compared with some of the other scandals about national security secrets, like improper classification and improper leakage, thinking about various security documents that ended up at Mar-a-Lago or in Joe Biden's garage or sort of infamously the like Hillary Clinton email scandal.

Oh, totally. I mean, I think about it compared with some of the other scandals about national security secrets, like improper classification and improper leakage, thinking about various security documents that ended up at Mar-a-Lago or in Joe Biden's garage or sort of infamously the like Hillary Clinton email scandal.