Why people do not reply to your text sometimes.

The main reason i hate texting is because my thumbs are too big

Cant wait till they get voice regcog working properly, just press one button and say "Text the ball and chain Start Dont forget the fucking gas bill End" 0r "Update Fakebook status Start TGIF Im getting so tanked tonight End"

 

only now that everyone has those little mini-keyboards on their phones. it's the same reason these statistics keep coming out saying "if you text while driving you actually go 72 miles without looking at the road." i still have the old-school numerical keypad that allows you to send an entire text without even looking at the phone. i can't imagine doing it the new way, or who decided that this is better.

 

In The Departed when Matt Damons character sends a text with the phone in his pocket without looking, you cant do that once you upgrade

So how many crooked cops, gansters and secret agents have died in recent years thanks all to needing social networking on cell phones

 

Although I can take my cell phone with me, I sometimes leave it in my bag or another room and by the time I get the text it's too late to text back. Not malicious, just carelessness!

 

when did it become a urgent requirement to return a text. If I did not ask for a text, I feel not obligation to return it. Its an invasion.

 

I agree. technology should be a tool, not an obligation or an annoyance. too many texts, especially when the person sending them wants an urgent reply, can definitely be an annoyance.

 

Because people are assholes!

 

Hear hear!

 

No it isnt.......

People do that all the time now...... Ya email them and they dont bother replying,etc.....

Very mean and rude.........

 

Why not?

 

Ya why bother paying for it??

 

Well guys I disagree, for important texts, if your part of a job or you working with a partner for school/college or some other obligation, you really should not see texts as an invasion of privacy.

If the person who keeps texting you has a history of sending meaningless superficial spam then sure I understand why you might not want to reply, but it's come to the point where people don't look or reply because they feel it's "too late". Honestly I don't think there is a "too late" for text messaging.

If the phone vibrates while someone is asleep, that's the owner of that phone's problem for not putting it on sleep/silent mode. Reply to them in the morning but give them some reply if the text is important and the person doesn't badger you for dumb reasons.

I've had texts where I say "Hey when are we supposed to carpool?" and other texts like that and I get no reply.

And the whole counter-argument of "Well my phone was in my bag so I didn't see it" doesn't hold up, because most people look at their phone at least once a day and should notice they got a text, they just forget to respond to the important texts.

 

Careless people that don't give a fuck.

 

Sometimes they forget, or sometimes they will send the text but it cancels as its sending and they dont know. Thats happened to me before.
Or sometimes they dont receive the text.
orr maybe they just dont wanna return it

 

sometimes they're in the basement when they send the text and it randomly arrives 4 days later.

 

I find it annoying when that happens. I equate it to passing someone in the hallway at work, saying a polite "hello", and not receiving one in return. Texting should not have a separate set of rules. Manners are manners.

 

Texting isn't the most reliable way to communicate and sometimes it annoys me when women try to text me constantly because I'd honestly rather see them in person.

It's also annoying when people put no effort into keeping the conversation going while texting and leave you with a text that is simply impossible to reply to. I wouldn't take anything through text to heart.

 

good old jack

hasn't gotten back to a single one of us yet.

 

The thing is, if texting is inappropriate or undesired in the moment, just clarify that point. Don't simply ignore the person.

 

and sometimes they suddenly reply two months later, oh wait, that's just on forums..

maybe this is because they are trying to end the conversation...