Sometimes you don't want to talk to your friends. Sometimes you just want to be with them. Like, hang out and watch things together, parallel play, sometimes not even that! Sometimes you just want to know what they're up to. Sometimes not even that, you just want to know that they're... y'know, there.
Ambient updates. You saw the forecast for the bitter cold, but a friend posted that they're eating some stew, so you don't have to worry about that friend. Mundane taskposting, someone putting their to-do list online and letting folk know when they've run the vacuum and had a shower.
The boring updates are good. News that you don't care about, from people you do care about.
The old social media apps spent most of their time telling you about all the danger in the world. It's useful to know of the danger of course, but it was never a good idea to do that in the same place you go when you want reassurance that your friends are safe.
It took far, far too long before someone thought to make an app whose sole purpose was to give you evidence, upon demand, that your friends are safe.
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