O n a particularly hard day, being added to another group chat is enough to make you drop to your knees in exasperation: They range from the good (solid birthday plans, where only the host has the power to post), to the bad (a neighbourhood argument about the bins), and the ugly (a £500 hen do with people you don’t even like ).

On average, people in Britain are involved in a whopping 151 group chats per year ; It’s where many plans are conceived, and many more go to die. In fact, almost half of the UK (47 per cent) has a social plan stuck in its infancy online, with staycations (27 per cent), pub catch-ups (25 per cent) and birthdays (20 per cent) among the most likely events to be discussed but never booked, according to new data commissioned by Sky Mobile.

Non-stop: The average Brit contributes to 151 group chats per year (Getty/iStock)

A digital decline of in-person invites and organisation has landed the social scene in this graveyard.…