🦄 Startups & VC 3h ago · Christian Kelly

Not everyone who keeps the group chat alive is extroverted. Some of them learned that being the one who initiates is the only reliable way to confirm you’re still wanted, because waiting to be reached out to produced too much silence to risk again

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Not everyone who keeps the group chat alive is extroverted. Some of them learned that being the one who initiates is the only reliable way to confirm you’re still wanted, because waiting to be reached out to produced too much silence to risk again
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The message goes out at 7:43pm; something light, a meme or a question about weekend plans, and the phone stays in the hand. The screen dims and gets tapped awake again. The three dots appear under someone’s name, then disappear, then appear again, and during that small interval a particular kind of vigilance is happening that has nothing to do with the meme. It is a check on something older than the chat itself.
The standard read on this person is that they are outgoing, social, energised

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