A separate group for a working chat, a separate one for a child's kindergarten and another one for neighbor correspondence. How often do you use such 'neighbor chats'?
Hello everyone! For a long time I wanted to share with you my emotions about various group chats. Why, oh why are they always so useless? With a bunch of offtopic and a minimum of useful information. Below are three examples to explain my resentment.
Recently we planned to get together with the whole course for the alumni meeting. Enthusiasts created a separate VKontakte chat and added all the participants there. And then the nightmare began. For one organizational message there were about five questions or just empty chatter began. Plus, VK every time 'clicked' (users of this network will understand what sound I mean) with a new message, and if you turn off the notification sound, then the numbers of new messages annoyed. As a result, I just freaked out and left that discussion, having previously asked the admins to simply warn me separately about the place and time of the meeting.
Another example: in Telegram I subscribed to announcements of banking news from the Banker's Blog. The channel description also provided a link to a bank chat. I went there, thought I would see some useful discussions, but in the end I ran into the same wall of stupid chatter. Nobody discusses anything, a new person comes in, asks a question, he is given ten pieces of advice, then another comes along and everything is new. I left this chat after just a couple of minutes of such discussion.
A third example is neighborhood or kindergarten shared chats. Both are usually intended for joint discussion of important issues or news announcements. However, there is sure to be someone who loves to chat, as a result, all important information rises to the top and may go unnoticed.
That is why I believe that for useful announcements you need either closed groups or publics without the possibility of commenting. The news came – I read it and that's it. No flood, no offtopic. By the way, a question for our old-time readers, have you often encountered this on the forums?