“Amy* left the group”
This was the message that popped up in one of my WhatsApp groups. The flurry of usual greetings was suddenly replaced by panicked messages: “Oh dear, is Amy okay?” “Should somebody check on her?” A few days later, I ran into Amy at another friend’s party. She walked towards me, like a zombie back from the dead and started chatting away as if nothing had happened. As it turned out, she wasn’t particularly upset with anyone, she simply didn’t want to be in the group anymore.
