I am the infamous non-responder in our group chat. Does that make me a bad friend? | Louis Hanson

I simply find it overwhelming to keep up with the never-ending stream of notifications we’re flooded with every day. Sometimes I feel like throwing my phone into a lake

There’s always one non-existent friend in the group chat. That infamous non-responder, loitering in the background, whose contribution to the chat’s discourse remains minimal … if not extinct.

That friend is me. Consider this my self-appointed intervention.

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