Welcome to General Chat - GAW Community Area
This General Chat area started off as a place for people to talk about things that are off topic, however it has quickly evolved into a community and has become an integral part of the GAW experience for many of us.
Based on its evolving needs and plenty of user feedback, we are trying to bring some order and institute some rules. Please make sure you read these rules and participate in the spirit of this community.
Rules for General Chat
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Be respectful to each other. This is of utmost importance, and comments may be removed if deemed not respectful.
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Avoid long drawn out arguments. This should be a place to relax, not to waste your time needlessly.
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Personal anecdotes, puzzles, cute pics/clips - everything welcome
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Please do not spam at the top level. If you have a lot to post each day, try and post them all together in one top level comment
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Try keep things light. If you are bringing in deep stuff, try not to go overboard.
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Things that are clearly on-topic for this board should be posted as a separate post and not here (except if you are new and still getting the feel of this place)
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If you find people violating these rules, deport them rather than start a argument here.
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Feel free to give feedback as these rules are expected to keep evoloving
In short, imagine this thread to be a local community hall where we all gather and chat daily. Please be respectful to others in the same way
Anyone else hate group texts? I think they are the rudest thing. Having someone's cell phone number is a privilege and should be used for important things. Want to send something else? email it, post it on social media, etc. If it's not bad enough to receive original texts via group, now there's a 'feature' that allows people to respond with a like or love to every text and you receive those as texts too. Make it stop! 🙉😵
lol, yep and the texting goes on forever, and sometimes it’s just emojis 🥴
I hate group text when I’m added with out my permission. You may be able to block group text on some phones. My family uses what’s app because we live in an area with dead zones and what’s app is better. We have a family group chat with myself, husband, daughter and son in law. Other wise I don’t participate.
We use the group texts as part of a women’s Bible study, so I like them. But generally the people that are in the group, are kind and considerate to one another. So it works great for me and my friends. Not sure what you’re experiencing or how or why, but maybe it’s the group of people that your interacting with.
I am not a fan. My husband's boss sends holidays texts and when people reply, it's obviously to everyone, and so many do. He hates it as much as I do.
Tell him to check the settings I think you can leave the group or block group messages. Back when I was on facebook I’d get group messages from random people and could leave group then blocked the person. It’s annoying seeing replies from people you don’t talk to.
Yes, this is exactly what I'm talking about. The most recent example anyway.