We All Suck at Group Texting

With emotions running high and messages easily misinterpreted, here’s how to keep the thread from getting awkward

Rainesford Stauffer
Forge
Published in
6 min readMar 31, 2020

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InIn one of her ongoing group texts, Amanda has been participating in what’s become the pandemic version of small talk: She shared an update of how her family was holding up against the spread of coronavirus. Her dad, in Texas…

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Rainesford Stauffer
Forge
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Author of An Ordinary Age, out 5/4/2021. Freelance writer. Kentuckian.