What I mostly see is people retreating from all the noise to closed chat groups in multiple platforms. If we keep inventing the same things over and over again

What I mostly see is people retreating from all the noise to closed chat groups in multiple platforms. If we keep inventing the same things over and over again my bet is that the next big thing will be connecting people in small groups based on geographical location or sub-culture like in the long long ago in the times of IRC.