*You’ve left the conversation*, the worst notification a teen can receive when you know you did not remove yourself. Group messages including “squads” have affected teen’s feelings of acceptance because if you aren’t in your class group message you’re a nobody, right? WRONG! I promise you, if you aren’t in a specific group message you are just missing out on pointless drama filled arguments between 22 people.   Surprisingly, people take these squad group messages serious. From 5 different fruit titled group messages people will not be in the hallway whispering to each other “omg that’s Daniel Salas from Watermelon”. Not trying to put the freshmen on blast but alongside the 2019 group message, there is an additional one called Exuberant that only a select few are included in. But man oh man if you’re in Exuberant, you’ve made it, like you went up ten notches on the how cool are you scale. When I questioned freshman Michael Chmelir, a proud member of Exuberant, he explained their decision process when deciding who makes it in the group message. He said “Well first off we have a specified application where we break down the qualities that each person possesses. Second, we decide if you are good looking or not. Third, we discuss what you can bring to the table, what can you do to help us. Lastly, we decide if you are a move maker, we can’t have no flail.” If you are curious, the originals decide all this, as it’s a several step process. After hearing this, I couldn’t help but laugh and evaluate my life, questioning if I could make it into Exuberant. As a member of Charlie’s Angels, I have learned you can be involved in-group messages in a positive way. Unfortunately, we so often revert to the “swipe and delete method” when we want to exclude someone who we aren’t necessarily on good terms with because you want to seem “savage”. Instead of taking the mature route and talking out your issues, people use group messages to purposefully exclude others. Everyone has done this while some have experience and just recently have I realized that it does hurt people. Group messages are a great invention for our generation for kids who want to talk to multiple people at the same time, but let’s not turn them into a new cyber-bulling tool.