The trend towards private group chats is a reprieve from the social media noise but it may not so great for public discourse. Fun read exploring both sides of the coin.
“The key advantage of the group chat is that “social graph” of your friend network exists in your head, and not only on a server in Iceland, which means you can easily abandon one platform for another without any trouble — or, as most of us do, occupy many platforms at once. The result, as Facebook knows all too well, is an internet much closer to the one we might want.”