You would think having a lot of friends being connected through an online chat would be great, but that is sometimes not the case. Some friends might invite their other friends in the chat who you might not have met before. Those other friends might invite their friends to join in the chat, and it just continues to the point when the amount of people being in the chat might reach its maximum. The maximum that a GroupMe chat can hold is 200 people, but it can be extended through submitting a request to the corporation. And they say meeting new people can be a good thing.
Most of the time I do not know who I am chatting with. One of my GroupMe chats has over 750 people in it. It sometimes surprises me on what kinds of people are in it. Some are nice, crazy, suspicious, weird, hilarious, sweet and easy to get along with. I do not know if that is the case with other chats, but what can you do? Everyone has their own opinions, and their own way of seeing things.
Chatting with a lot of people can take up a lot of your time, especially when there are a few who like to have long conversations. It sometimes does get annoying having to look back on your phone to see what is going on with everyone. A lot of vibrating, and other noises start to happen at random times since some of the people who are in the chat are from different areas of the world. What I tend to do is have the chat muted and come back to it late at night after I have all of my work done for the day. Catch up on the conversation, chat a little and turn off my phone so I can get a good nice sleep.
Most of the time, muting the chat is a common thing to do. When I muted the chat, I was not the only one. A lot of other people that are connected through the chat have muted it for a long time. Only a few have not, and they are mostly the ones who are continually chatting all of the time. Over time, the chat is filled with a lot of advertisements of events being hosted by organizations that some of the people are a part of, and they want others to come to their events. Sadly, a lot of people have muted the chat for an extended period of time that some of them forget that they are still in the chat, and missing out of a lot of nice events their friends might be hosting or going to.
Sometimes having a chat this big may not turn out to be a good idea, but it all depends on the ones who are in it and running it can decide on that. Some friends might leave because of the boredom the chat may have or that they just have enough with people chatting all of the time. A few do rejoin the chat to see if there is anything new going on or see if the chat got better with some jokes. Anyway, manage your time with chats this big or bigger (good luck) and mute it if necessary to focus on other important things going on in your life. Not everyone is going to like being in chats like these.
