When no one texts me back

opposite_of_hotcakes · 4 months

It's even worse when you're already texting someone and then you ask if they want to hang out, but they never get back to you.

knot353 · 4 months

From now on this is the picture I'm going to send when ever my friends don't text me back.

Saephon · 4 months

My favorite was the time I deleted my facebook for a month and rarely texted anyone first to see which of my friends was willing to put in effort for once; turns out none.

Reactivate facebook - commence Okay.jpg face.

oldzealand · 4 months

You, me, bar, beers, buzzed. Wings, shots, drunk. Waitresses, hot. Football, Cornell/Hofstra, slaughter. Then quick nap at my place, and we hit the tiz-own.

LilDrumrGrl · 4 months

I get the joke and I've felt that way a couple times. That said, I miss when people didn't expect you to be avaiable round the clock via your phone. Staying in contact with people is great but they're even putting cell phone reception into the NYC subways now. Is there no escape?! Sometimes I just don't feel like talking to anybody, and that should be allowed.

Someone was going to say this. May as well be me.

jemayb · 4 months

I'm sitting here right now waiting on a reply from a friend about hanging out, and this is the top post when I visit reddit to kill time. Aliens.

DeadGummyBear · 4 months

Feels pretty bad though...

Herdinthehalls · 4 months

It's even worse when you see them check their email all the time, tell them in person that you're going to send them an email, do send one, then they never reply.

KickIt2Peterson7 · 4 months

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RomanNoodleLegs · 4 months

Makes me appreciate how much my cats love me.

UnBeatable73 · 4 months

Relevant Aziz Ansari

lKnown2Bl · 4 months

Exactly how I feel brotha, after awhile I would just stop texting those people but then they stopped being my friends. I guess that's just the way life works.

heptakaideka · 4 months

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metalfetus · 4 months

Ever since I moved, this is pretty much exactly how I feel whenever I try to contact someone. Usually only one person responds to my texts/messages/emails. Would be nice if they would just tell me they didn't want to be friends anymore instead of just ignoring me, but whatever, life moves on.

underweartycoon · 4 months

And the resulting wave of relief when they were just being normal people and they got back to you when they weren't busy = priceless.

Myrandall · 4 months

What's the source?

boyTerry · 4 months

I hate that people expect an instant answer when they send a text. Especially if they don't ask a question. If you want an instant response call me!

MonotonousMan · 4 months

Alright, so, you know... as a complete psychopath... I think about this kind of shit way to much. But it drives me crazy; it hurts, and makes me angry. I try and reason that people are just busy, you know? It happens. But then it takes even longer. And i'm the kind of guy who remembers people who have no clue who I am - so, I pretty well know my friends schedules and it's just not lining up right. Then I think about myself... And I make an effort to reply promptly to messages - who the fuck likes to be kept waiting? Besides, it doesn't take hardly anything to reply to a message... even if it's just "Sorry, busy, i'll get back to you at X:XX"

Ugh... Fucking /rant.

daboyz12 · 4 months

Yes! I sent this girl a text with no response 2 days later! She seemed so interested, at least I thought. This says it all.

tinyroom · 4 months

Am I the only one who hates having to communicate trough phone, mail, text whatever and tries to ignore or avoid as long as possible?

However I do love to talk in person.

This "paradox" made me lose all my friends, but I would still love to talk to them IN PERSON. I just have to find them... somehow...

BEARCRAFT · 4 months

It's worse when you're deaf, and have to tell people to text you instead when they call you. Eventually, they just don't bother to talk to you anymore... Texting has replaced IM, but it's nowhere near the level of an actual conversation in terms of social depth like IM was. When I go make new friends, the same thing happens; they still like you and are still chill with you in-person, you're just too difficult to hit up and do things with.

It's hard enough to be social when you have both a hearing loss and a science major in your way, and with one month left until graduation, I've given up because every relationship I make seems like a dead end. I don't know what to do any more.

onholdforever · 4 months

This happens to me all the time. It always seems like others are constantly texting and when I text someone, I either get a reply back a day later or not at all. Then I get a lame excuse how they weren't near their phone, but when I'm with them, their phone is there in plain sight and are always on it.

I feel like fucking loser.

NoNeedForAName · 4 months

I'm not annoyed by your friendship. I'm annoyed by the fact that you only wrote "lol" and expect me to respond to it.

Personalhero · 4 months

Alright man, take a look at the big picture. Not everyone on this planet can fit with everyone else, at least not all the time. Your friends don't text you back out of spite, they may be doing something important, or maybe, they're a bit sick of you, or maybe they really don't have room for another person in their activites.

People don't text you back out of anger, they just want to avoid being rude and upfront about the way they feel. It's very hard to say "Sorry man, but I think I'm just gonna hang out with some guys, just us", as supposed to just ignoring the text message, and getting a (Seemingly) equivalent result.

It's just a part of growing up, but you'll start seeing bigger pictures of your social groups in the near future. All I can say is, stop texting for awhile. Make it for essentials, lose the reputation of being a compulsive texter (sorry for the assumptions), and then you're in the clear!

RaichuALoveS0ng · 4 months

I definitely feel this is a little over dramatic. If you want communication with someone and think they won't answer you back, CALL THEM. I really hate when people just send texts to me, I usually end up sending a lot of texts back in forth to just confirm basic plans and due to my phone plan costing me a lot more than a 5 minute max call.

slappedback · 4 months

Sometimes I have to text myself to make sure my phones working... it is.

DamaOscuraDeTodos · 4 months

I had a friend who I really got along with, but whenever I sent her a text, she never replied back. And I mean never. I know she got my texts because I whenever I called her, she mentioned them. Eventually I just got so annoyed, we stopped talking.

PangramParadox · 4 months

Or, when you talk to them in person and they say "hey, lets hang out on this day". and you text/call them on that day and they don't pick up/respond.

badassgirl · 4 months

Worse when it's your boyfirend.

Dopebear · 4 months

Exactly how I feel at any situation where I speak to somebody, or invite them to something (a game, party, etc) and even if they do join or don't accept, they'll never speak to me or invite me. They never engage/initiate.

People are so odd.

Vinura · 4 months

That new facebook "seen" thing is going to make things awks.

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