Why do people during a nice and fluent chat simply stop and not respond, or simply log out?

I agree too. A total lack of respect for other users. Courtesy costs nothing!

I hate that too and would love to understand that.

Lucy, does this still happen to you over 3 years later?

I usually tell people bye

Dam good question.

I'm English ... it could just be WiFi issues, it happens to me all the time, being thrown out of WiFi

It could just be their WiFi's playing up, it happens to me a lot

Like you did to me you mean 🤷🏼‍♂️🤷🏼‍♂️🤷🏼‍♂️

Life away from their screen is likely more important that making sure they respond to someone they had a nice chat with.
They walked away.
User names, people online, are only entertainment for most.

they're bored by your incessant neediness of wanting to talk to them and them only.

Just something I've experienced lately.

I so feel you!

I've been told that I appear to go offline regularly even though I am definitely still here. I mostly use SW from my phone so I assume it is showing me logged out when I switch to another app? Maybe the same is happening for others. I also am on here at work and sometimes have to abruptly stop responding because I get a call or need to be in a meeting or such, but I always come back as soon as I am able and pick up where the conversation left off.

I try to tell my friends when I need to sign out. But sometimes I get interrupted by life.

It’s when my wife come home. Bye!

They just get bored and don’t care about other people as long as they aren’t entertaining them
Also it’s easy to be rude to ppl online
They probably wouldnt act like that face to face

Or I mean they could have just had something suddenly come up

It is just discourteous if not rude Lucy.... but people from here in the UK do it too

Real life often interferes for me

I hate that.

I hate it too

Sometimes, life happens. I try to avoid simply ceasing to respond.

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