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Direct messages (DMs)<ref>Also known as private messages or personal messages</ref> and group chats (GCs) operate a little bit differently. Any student can (as of 2025) message any other student, regardless of grade. Simply type their name into the search bar, and select the message icon. There is no "block" feature (that I know of.) Group chats can be created by anyone, and anyone can be added by those already in the group chat. To start a group chat, you have to add at least two other people (I think,) but group chats can still exist even if everyone but one person leaves. In the 2023 and 2024 school years, there were policies implemented disallowing the addition of nonconsenting persons to group chats, but there is no mechanism in Teams to enforce the policy. So, you're supposed to ask someone before you add them to a group chat, but that rule is often broken. There are no GC admins, so any member can kick any other member. There is no such thing as permanent banning (unless done by a faculty member,) so there have at times been ugly kicking wars where a small group of people attempts to remove all other members from the chat.