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You can mute – but you can never leave. Why have WhatsApp groups become so stressful? | Polly Hudson

Media | The Guardian · Polly Hudson · last updated

There is the initial group. Then the side group. Then another splinter group. Suddenly, in your bones, you know the wrong message is going to end up with the wrong person …

It’s the new last taboo. Officially added to the list of topics you absolutely must not discuss, along with politics, money and religion: the WhatsApp side group. Apparently nobody told Melanie C from the Spice Girls though, because she has just revealed far too much about theirs.

“There are subgroups within the group,” she told the Sydney Morning Herald’s Sunday Life magazine. “I definitely know there is a chat group that doesn’t contain me, but somewhere else we keep Ginger or Posh out.”

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