girls and texting....

You should be able to activate a setting on your phone that can auto-reply a text back to any text you get.. Like it'll automatically say, "Busy, text ya later!" Or something to that effect. They got an app for that? heh.

stop being friends with cling ons lol

No, not all girls are like this but many of them seem to be. The quickness of your response is translated on their "He Loves Me" barometer and you either pass or fail.

I text like a man - to pass on short, necessary information - like, "I'll meet you at X at Y-o'clock" or "I'm going to be late, see you at X-o'clock".

I can understand your frustration... its the curse of the immediate gratification generation. I remember when all this was fields.... :huh: :bigsmile:

It really depends... if I casually text someone, its fine if he/she doesn't respond. However if I text someone asking a "serious" question, I do expect a response. If not by the end of the day, then by the very next day.

Well, an example will b the situation I'm having now. Friend & me are registering for a 5km run, early bird registration ends May 6. I've done my part of the registration, made payment & it'll only b finalised after she logons to the website to enter her details. I'm going on vacation this Sat & wouldn't b home till May 4 - their customer svc doesn't operate on weekends. Since the day I registered, 2 days ago, I've texted her asking her to register. A day after, I texted a reminder. And today, I asked whether she's done her part. No response. At all. And yes, she knows I'm going away tomorrow, and that I want this to be settled b4 I go.

Why didn't I just call her? Let's just say she's terrible at answering her cell & she doesn't return calls. :explode:

Editied to add: I've sent her texts both via SMS & whatsapp. Whatsapp registers a person's "last seen online" time, so I'm pretty sure she got my message.

I wonder this about men, too. I'm always forgetting to text people back. It's not me trying to be rude... I'm just busy and lose track of my phone :P

exactly this

I am a complete slacker myself as I just hate texting. I dont use my facebook either I think the last time I checked was 8 or so months ago.

Why does everyone have to be in each others face all the time? It leaves no time just to think. It sometimes takes me days to answer a text if I bother (unless its urgent and hopefully I remember to look).

I see all these people walking around head down texting like their next breath relys on it. No one is looking at the day or experiencing the moment, taking time to just think and absorb their life as it happens.

Its the popularity cult. If someone hasn't left a message on your facebook or phone they think they have become social pariahs. Needy people shouldn't be encouraged they should be smacked down. (and their phones smashed)

The old fart perspective (me) -

I think the polite thing to do is not try and turn your friends into your narcissistic suppliers.

If you text "I am going to hospital"............Ill reply..

if you text "I just trod in dog poo LOL!"

Or "I had a MacDonalds thickshake" ............................ I will probably not reply.

In a face to face conversation if someone is boring you with inane statements you have the choice not to respond or back away until they shutdown Why should text messaging have the privilege of a response no matter how inane or tedious the comment?

I see some texts (not all) as irritating as a chain letter in my email. You know the ones with sparkling flowers and butterflies and all the sacharine sentiment followed by a threat how something aweful is going to happen to you if you delete and don't pass it on. (when I read those emails I amuse myself by imaging it being read out by a death metal voice.)

I do the same with both types....delete.

.I miss the 80's when the only mobile phones were the size of house bricks and hardly anyone had them....good times.

Too funny - and so very, very true. :laugh:

I hate texting. If it's for pretty much any purpose other than relaying a very brief, matter-of-fact message that doesn't require a response, I think texting is rude. If you want to talk to me, call me, come over, whatever. It makes absolutely no sense to me to try to have a conversation with someone by typing out messages on a PHONE when you could push a couple of buttons on that very same phone and actually TALK with that person. Y'all remember talking, right? It's what we used to do with phones before everyone shoved their heads up their rear ends.

I am so glad I am married, because if I was out on a date and my date started texting during the meal to share with her friends, I would call for the check, take her home and go out by myself.

Ohh yes! I HATE people texting/using their phone when we're spending time together, especially if it's something like a meal. My ex used to always be on his Blackberry, and I found it extremely disrespectful. It was one of the biggest contributing factors to my decision to end things.

i am notorious for not texting back. sometimes i am not doing anything and my phone is near me and i can respond right away. other times, i'm busy, my phone is not near me and it takes a little while to respond. its not meant to be rude or mean or anything even like that.

i think most of my friends know me well enough to not be bothered by it. guys that i'm meeting or have gone on dates with, haven't seemed too bothered by it either. i try to never take more than a couple hours to respond. sometimes i forget. my girlfriends are the only ones who text instead of call to ask me to go out.

i have been known to have conversations with people via email, IM, text.... and forget about responding for days. if i do, i profusely apologize! and i usually do feel quite bad that i forgot!!!

I hardly ever reply right away (hours to a day later) because of work , just because I have a life or hell just dont feel like being bothered. So I dont expect a man to do the same. Hope not to offend anyone but I think it is stupid to sit and wait around for someone to reply unless an emergency

Sorry, I think it's rude not to text people back within a few days. It only takes a couple seconds, how hard is it? I'm generally as busy as the next person but I can handle sparing 3 seconds out of my day to send someone a text.

But when people do this to me I don't complain, I just stop trying to get a hold of them. Problem solved.

No, not all girls are like this! I'm horrible with texting, unless my phone is right next to me and I'm not doing anything. My phone can stay in my bag for a long while, I might read a text while walking and then forget to respond, blablabla. So when I don't get a reply, I don't put too much thought into it.

If you're interested in them as friends or not it doesn't take long to say "I am busy, I will text you when I can." When my husband is busy at work he sometimes just sends a quick "I love you".