Welcome to part 2 of my top 10 of 2020. You can read/listen to part 1 here. These are not ranked in order, but they have numbers because this is a list of 10 things and so I want everyone to know that I did, in fact, include 10 things. Group chats: they exist in texts. iMessage. Instagram messages. Discord. Telegram. Slack. Signal. Group chats have a levity and asynchronous nature that allow us to stay connected, but on our own time. Zoom and Facetime are good for a lot of things, but it's also pretty draining to be on camera all the time! And you can have multiple chats going on at once. You've got the ones with your families, the one with your OG crew, your current town buddies, your brother and his friends, the group of Very Online strangers that you met on a social network made for sharing screenshots that you've all since abandoned but now you talk all day (literally all day, given the timezones. Real panic hours when unlock your phone and see 1,354 messages and it's been like just a few hours since you opened the group chat). You know, the usual kind of groups. But hey! People need people. People connect over the most ordinary and also completely random happenstance, and it makes me feel good. Also did I just spend too many words describing a very basic communication medium? Sure did!
Top 10 of 2020, Part 2 [No. 082]
Top 10 of 2020, Part 2 [No. 082]
Top 10 of 2020, Part 2 [No. 082]
Welcome to part 2 of my top 10 of 2020. You can read/listen to part 1 here. These are not ranked in order, but they have numbers because this is a list of 10 things and so I want everyone to know that I did, in fact, include 10 things. Group chats: they exist in texts. iMessage. Instagram messages. Discord. Telegram. Slack. Signal. Group chats have a levity and asynchronous nature that allow us to stay connected, but on our own time. Zoom and Facetime are good for a lot of things, but it's also pretty draining to be on camera all the time! And you can have multiple chats going on at once. You've got the ones with your families, the one with your OG crew, your current town buddies, your brother and his friends, the group of Very Online strangers that you met on a social network made for sharing screenshots that you've all since abandoned but now you talk all day (literally all day, given the timezones. Real panic hours when unlock your phone and see 1,354 messages and it's been like just a few hours since you opened the group chat). You know, the usual kind of groups. But hey! People need people. People connect over the most ordinary and also completely random happenstance, and it makes me feel good. Also did I just spend too many words describing a very basic communication medium? Sure did!