A Family Slack Group

Recently my immediate family (six of us in total) started using Slack to keep up during the pandemic. I was a little skeptical, but it’s been great. We now have a lively Slack group running.

We’ve had a few channels emerge already. And we’ve started to see the types of things posted that we wouldn’t put in our family group text. People are forming channels for certain interests and posting there, when they might not have posted at all before. For example, I was hesitant about posting a lot of tech articles right into the family group chat before. But it feels fine to steadily drop links in a…