Okay, does anyone find this annoying with online friends?

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I get really really annoyed when people IM me and then they are slow to respond because they are busy or chatting to lot of buddies. Well if they are too busy to chat with me, don't frickin' IM me because it is god damn annoying when you do and then don't respond and it takes you lets say twenty minutes to respond.

Also if you have to leave in a few minutes, don't start a chat with me and then go "gtg cya" a few minutes later. If you have to get off in a few minutes, don't IM me. If you had to get off unexpectedly, that's different.


I think I am going to start confronting people about it and not care if it makes me sound like a b***h. They need to know how it makes me feel so they know. You don't know if you are bothering someone if they don't ever tell you. I already confronted one and she took it well.

I also find that annoying. I do not message someone unless they message me first, typically, because I'm unsure if they want to talk to me. So when they message me and leave 5 minutes later or they don't respond it makes me feel bad. =[

I *sometimes* do the same thing, unintentionally however. I like talking to people on the computer but it stresses me out like in real life after awhile. So sometimes I'll get up to pace for awhile or lay down for a second and forget to tell them I'll be right back.

That's very annoying, true. But I think it's equally annoying when you're sitting in a room with someone who insists on talking with someone on the internet or texting someone at the same time. You should do one thing or the other, not both at the same time.

Ditto. I usually take it as a sign that they're talking to someone they find more interesting/attractive/whatever, but don't want to blow me off, so they string me along until I gave up on the superficial conversation we've been having.

Yeah...I guess I could see how that would be 'annoying'...

Meh...You wouldn't wanna chat with ME on AIM, though...I tend to do stuff like that to people all the time. x_X;; Well not soo much anymore though...but I do prefer to IM and talk to mainly my closest friends, it's just how I am...no, but i'm not trying to be 'catty' or anything. I just feel more comphertable talking to people I am close to, it's nothing to take personally...

Maybe some of these people feel the same as me? i/d (Of course...I guess this IS NTs we're talking about...though still who know's. people IN GENNERAL tend to prefer to close to closer buddies, i think...)

~cmastler

I love chatty buddies. I just hate it when I get a chatter's block. If the same thing happens to the other person, no worries between us.

I hate it and take it personal too.

Yet I seem to do the same thing just not intentionally..I just forget....

This is why I can't chat anymore as it just creates more misconstrued crap in my life.

I don't mind at all because I'm also doing other stuff at the same time.

same here. I don't usually chat to more than one person at a time though (that's why I'm always "busy" hehe), it's too distracting.

I just throw my random thoughts at the other person usually, I don't mind silences, just like I don't mind them in real life.

I have no motivation to online friendship whatsoever any more. That is only one of legions of reasons why.

I only talk to people I talk to in real life, through IM. Otherwise I don't see the point.

Yeah, I get annoyed with online friends being slow as well. But I learn that you sometimes have to put up with it because you can't do anything that will make the other person message you any faster.

I hate that too! I stopped hanging out at one of my friends' house because he was always on the computer whenever we hung out. But now he's always saying that I don't want to hang out anywhere but my house which isn't true. I just don't want to hang out at his house where he's likely to be on the computer the entire time while I sit there bored. I also hate talking to him on msn because of the reasons the OP mentioned and sometimes he disappears completely without saying anything, but of course he has enough time to change his status message...

Another of my friends texts occasionally while we're hanging out but he doesn't initiate it, he's usually just responding to a friend and he usually stops texting them after a few times.


Glad to see I'm not the only one. I usually just tell people I'll talk to them later and then I go recover.

f*****g person did t to me again. He tells me I should let him go and I ask what he means and he doesn't answer. So I show him this thread and gah he is still not responding. Pisses me off.


Sorry, had to rant to get it off my chest.


I can't even be nice about this anymore because I am so sick of this sh!t.

Eh, it doesn't bother me. I'm patient with that most of the time.

If it happened to you all the time, I am sure you will get sick of it after a while and then it will be annoying.