Kill Reply All by Victoria Turk

Author:Victoria Turk
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2020-01-07T00:00:00+00:00

NOW YOU’VE GOT your group on the go, and you’re happily chatting away. Unlike email, messaging is supposed to be fun—if you’re filled with dread when you get a notification, you’re doing friendship wrong. When you find yourself in seventy-nine different chats at the same time, however, it can get a little overwhelming, and some basic etiquette will help keep things under control.

As with other forms of digital communication, timing is a major consideration in messaging etiquette. Be mindful of people’s schedules. While prompt replies are preferred, not everyone can keep tap-tapping on their phone throughout the working day, so try not to hold any major discussions or make group decisions when you know someone’s unavailable. (For discreet work-hour gossiping, many messengers have a desktop version that you can conveniently hide behind a Word document when the boss walks past . . .)

Keep messages in a group chat relevant to everyone; otherwise you’re just clogging up people’s feeds—like the messaging version of an unnecessary email cc. Start a separate group if you’re talking about an issue that not everyone is interested in, or if you’re planning an event that not everyone in the first group is attending. Don’t have a private chat in the group chat; that’s just rude.

Speaking of clogging people’s feeds, you should aim to minimize notifications. Don’t send six separate messages in a row when one longer one will do. Anyone who has their notifications turned on will wonder what’s possessed their phone when it starts nonstop buzzing, only to find out that it’s . . .

. . . just you

. . . writing one message

. . . a few words

. . . at a time.

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