IMessage Group Chat

Dear Apple support team.
I am a huge fan of all your products and your work. I personally own 2 iPod touches, and iPad 3 and iPhone 5, a Mac Pro, me and my family use airport routers in our house, and our main server with all our backup consists of several hard drives and 2 Mac minis put together. My Point is I am a huge apple fan boy, I got that from my dad, who has supported and purchase about each and every apple product there ever was, (including the first Mac ever). I recently received an iPhone 5
(For Christmas), and I love it! I am in high school which is a crazy place and crazy places are usually populated by crazy people. Needless to say I have mature friends, and I have friends that, well, make me face palm myself half the time they finish a sentence. Now one of the ladder has created a group chat with me, and 2 more friends, and about 15 other people that spend their recreational time spamming pictures ranging from horror movies to Pokemon. And to be honest at first I enjoyed it but after a few days, waking up with a little red oval next to your iMessage app that displays the number 3654 is not a pleasant surprise. So I searched the web for a way to delete myself from a group chat in iMessage, and found some very helpful pages on how not to do this, but I never found a way that permanently removed me from the chat. So I became impatient and almost destroyed my phone doing another instructional technique I found online... Wouldn't trust all of them. So I came to realize that the only people who can help are the staff at apple. I called and asked to speak with the CEO. He never called back, don't know what that's all about :). So I decided to write this message. There's a Novel for yah. And here I am kindly asking you, could you please free me from the horror of being forced to experience this group chat. I don't want to turn iMessages off, but I don't want to continue talking to these people. I really hope that there will soon be a feature that let's you exit a chat like this. I usually don't like to bother people that do such great work, but this, in my eyes, is a serious serious con, even though it's a lonely one. I hope for a response and pray for the issue to be resolved with the next major iOS.
Patrick

You are not addressing Apple here. Submit your feedback directly to Apple using the appropriate link on the Feedback page:
http://www.apple.com/feedback

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