"Stop inviting me to your parties. I think I have not only aged out of going to some non-stop rager hosted by you, specifically for your benefit, but I also can't keep track of when your unnecessary gatherings even occur. You might think I sound incredibly unfun, but actually, I'm the life of the party. It's just that at my age, all the life has been sucked out."
"Unfortunately, technology has a solution to my memory problem. This year was the year of Partiful, a purple Y2K-looking mess of an app that is designed to not only centralize your social activities into one place, but also give you the option of annoying strangers who had the misfortune of attending the same party you did. One day, every young or young-ish person started using Partiful, blasting out invites and hoping you'd cave and download this weird app you'd never heard of."
The narrator feels too old and overwhelmed by frequent party invitations and cannot track multiple events close together. Memory lapses make it difficult to remember dates or recent meals. Partiful, a purple Y2K-styled app, centralizes social events and encourages users to broadcast invitations and tag strangers from parties. The app's popularity spread rapidly, fueled by young users and invites. Partiful was founded by former Palantir employees, raising moral concerns. Tech inertia keeps the narrator using the app despite dislike. There is nostalgia for Facebook's single-events feature and desire for a simpler, consolidated social platform.
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