Put it in the group chat

Unless he has an Android. Then send it to him on Signal.

On my phone, I have at least 11 frequently active group chats across four different platforms. This total does not count the Signal and Slack chats I am in for work and community-based volunteer groups, of which there are many more. For my family alone, I am in four different group chats — one for the immediate family, one for me and my siblings, one with my brothers only, and one with my extended family. And this is not counting replicated versions of those, such as the Twitter chat with my brothers where we exclusively share tweets making fun of our sister. Sorry you had to find out this way, Sophia.

More than any one platform or piece of technology, I believe the group chat has been the largest factor in changing the way we communicate. For example, one of my group chats, with friends from high school, is roughly seven years old. It has in-jokes and references that wouldn’t make sense to anyone but the group’s members. Even its name, a reference to our high school Model United Natio…