There are too many ways to DM, and it's stifling the way we communicate

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There are too many ways to DM, and it's stifling the way we communicate
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At any given moment, I have, on average, five unread text messages, a couple unread Instagram messages, dozens of unseen Twitter DMs, and close to 1,000 unread emails along with a smattering of other messages on services like Facebook, Snapchat, and Slack.*

It's too much, and it's becoming too hard to keep up with all of it.

SEE ALSO: One woman's quest to find the right meditation app in a messed-up world (https://mashable.com/2018/02/01/best-meditation-apps-mindfulness/)


All of these inboxes to check and ways to talk to one another, in theory, make communication easier, more natural, and fluid. But in practice? This disjointed way of communicating in the modern world just makes everything more exhausting.* Read more... (https://mashable.com/2018/02/19/apps-direct-messages-killing-communication/)

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