Robert ten Brink feels disrespected by his own family and relatives because he is not allowed in all WhatsApp groups. “I recently discovered that there are small ‘subfamily group apps’.”
Almost every family has one: a group chat on WhatsApp. Robert ten Brink also has one, entitled ‘la Famiglia’. “An app that includes all adult family members, daughters and sons-in-law. This is useful when discussing joint appointments, photos or other fun things that we want to share with each other.”
Hearts
Those group apps are great, says Robert in his column in the Girlfriend. You used to call each other every few days, but: “Now we actually get updates from each other all day long about where we are and what we are doing and what it looks like or what the plans are.”
The photos of the youngest family members in particular are often answered with many hearts, according to the RTL 4 star. “That’s all great, of course, and I really wouldn’t want to go back to those much more ignorant times.”
Subgroups
Now, however, Robert is in sackcloth and ashes. “I recently discovered that there are also small ‘subfamily app groups’. In other words, groups that I am not in. And yes, because people in these times are actually kept informed of each other about everything, I am extremely triggered by what those smaller split-off groups discuss with each other.”
“Especially because Roos is apparently ‘in it’ sometimes. ‘Those are things that really don’t interest you,’ she says in an app group about what the cats in the family are experiencing. I think I could just stay out of that. But my curiosity sometimes wins and so I nagged for a long time and I am now also part of that cat lovers app. Long live the app group!”