Mean girl behavior is alive and well. But you wouldn’t necessarily know it — unless you find out that you’ve been excluded from a group chat.

“My friends told me that there was a subgroup text created without me by the people from a bigger group chat I was in,” says Marleena, 35. “It was a big mom group chat, and they excluded me because they said I was annoying and sloppy.” She was hurt, understandably. But it affected her in major ways. “As someone who has dealt with body dysmorphia, I became very self-conscious and hyper-aware of my appearance and also how I was texting. It even transferred to how I was Slacking at work.”

Two of her closest friends — who had been added to that splinter group — told her about it months later. “I feel lucky that I had friends that were willing to be ho

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