Every group chat seems to die the moment I send 1-2 texts there. Every single one. Old, new, offline friends, online friends, everywhere. What’s going on? Are my jokes bad? Have you ever experienced this? If yes, what was the issue you found out?

  • palordrolap
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    110 hours ago

    Been there done that.

    A few years back I went back to an old Internet haunt that I hadn’t been to in more years still.

    People were there, chatting, including at least one person I knew who’d been there previously. I should have taken the hint when he joked that he “didn’t spend a lot of time there, honest” (paraphrase), but I basically picked up where I’d left off years before rather than feel out the new vibe. There were about twenty or so people there at first, and I only really noticed when there were ten or so left and they weren’t saying much.

    I left. Haven’t had the nerve to go back. If I do, I’ll try to feel out the vibe first.

    In the meantime, I’ve found other places to hang out and different people. But I still try to reel myself in occasionally, just in case.