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Doesn't make sense to require anything offline in the modern world. I'd argue the vast majority of group chats consists of people who have never met, likely liv

Doesn't make sense to require anything offline in the modern world. I'd argue the vast majority of group chats consists of people who have never met, likely live on entirely different continents, and yet have something in common (like they all played the same game together, or work in the same industry, or something like that) and roughly similar values.

bigiain 2y ago
There's not a single person in any of my Signal group chats that I haven't eaten, drank, and/or danced with. I very much require "offline connections" with people in my group chats. In my head, what you're describing is "social media groups". I have not met most of the people I follow on Mastodon in real life. There is some crossover between my Mastodon crowd and my Signal group chat crowd, but it's fairly small. I also have a few Slack "workspaces" that are mostly "something in common" groups of largely "not friends, just other people". I am a member of a few web forums which each have a core of people who are becoming or have become real life friends, but include a vast majority of people who are not and will never be friends. Everybody in my Signal group chats is a friend or at the very least a friend of a friend. In general Madtodon interactions are with "other people", not "friends". (But I totally get that other people do online and real fife relationships differently to me.
- wincy 2y ago
  As an example of a group I’ve recently become a part of, I go to a sizable convention once a year. I met some people there and we traded Discord usernames. They invited me to their private group and we’ve coordinated events, and there are four other people that I’ve yet to meet in this group, and one is rooming with me at the convention. So I guess in this case our communications are “we’re soon to be real life friends”. Also a coworker who lives in a different country who hasn’t gotten to meet us is in my group chats for my gaming group. We’d be in real life friends if the opportunity presents itself (maybe at a conference or something) but we’ve never met physically. That said 90% of people in my group chats are people I’ve met in person, just trying to justify a few exceptions I personally have.

bigiain 2y ago

There's not a single person in any of my Signal group chats that I haven't eaten, drank, and/or danced with. I very much require "offline connections" with people in my group chats. In my head, what you're describing is "social media groups". I have not met most of the people I follow on Mastodon in real life. There is some crossover between my Mastodon crowd and my Signal group chat crowd, but it's fairly small. I also have a few Slack "workspaces" that are mostly "something in common" groups of largely "not friends, just other people". I am a member of a few web forums which each have a core of people who are becoming or have become real life friends, but include a vast majority of people who are not and will never be friends. Everybody in my Signal group chats is a friend or at the very least a friend of a friend. In general Madtodon interactions are with "other people", not "friends". (But I totally get that other people do online and real fife relationships differently to me.

wincy 2y ago
As an example of a group I’ve recently become a part of, I go to a sizable convention once a year. I met some people there and we traded Discord usernames. They invited me to their private group and we’ve coordinated events, and there are four other people that I’ve yet to meet in this group, and one is rooming with me at the convention. So I guess in this case our communications are “we’re soon to be real life friends”. Also a coworker who lives in a different country who hasn’t gotten to meet us is in my group chats for my gaming group. We’d be in real life friends if the opportunity presents itself (maybe at a conference or something) but we’ve never met physically. That said 90% of people in my group chats are people I’ve met in person, just trying to justify a few exceptions I personally have.