My biggest pet peeve of online correpondence

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You're talking to some people by text/social networking/email etc etc,and they give you one or two word answers despite you having took the courtesy and time to write up a legitimate greeting?

And for me it's not just people I'm getting to know.I'll write my friends/family on FB or some similar place asking them about how they are doing and similar things.Generally at least a few lines of text up to a paragraph.And then I'll get 'pretty good' or something similar as an answer.Wow...that must have taken them like 2 seconds to type up and hit the enter button.Perhaps I'm thinking too deeply,but it seems pretty downright rude to me

This annoys me sometimes too. Sure, sometimes just a couple of words is all that is needed, but much of the time it would be nice to get at least a decently thorough response. I'm not expecting people to write a whole essay in response, but sometimes I get the feeling they can barely be bothered to respond at all. The response that annoys me the most is a plain "OK".

at least you get responses. lucky.

I'm only ever disappointed when I'm expecting a response. I also never rely on text, FB or other such media for real conversations. If anything, will use those as tools for establishing that it's okay to call or meet with the person and when. That way I'm more likely to have more of their attention as well. I have no idea how much their attention is divided when I can't see them or hear their voice.

If you're only asking how they are doing, that might fall under general chit-chat greeting in their mind, in which case a one or two word answer is sufficient. Most people are assuming "How are you?" to be a rhetorical greeting, not an actual request for information about their lives.

I quit messaging them after a couple replies like that. I figure they don't want to talk or they are too busy to or something. I could of talked to myself if I wanted to have a conversation with myself

My biggest pet peeve is not getting a response at all. I can't deal with it. I feel like I can't put the interaction out of my mind until I get a response. I'd rather get a brief, flippant answer than nothing at all.

People communicate differently. Try not to take it personally. If you ask me, I think we as a society are really losing our ability to express ourselves through the written and spoken word.

not really rude. a lot of the time people are busy, or if they are on facebook, they are focused on something. we never get time to reply to everyone's messages, we never get to check everything off our to do list. that's just life. but if you are getting two word replies, just wait until another day when they are less busy.