How do you feel when you see an SW friend online, and they don't bother to stop and say "Hello?"

Sometimes you want to log in and participate and not spend all your time chatting.

I prefer to just interact through feed and post and that’s how I enjoy spending my time on the site. I rarely do pm(s) and if I do I don’t regularly reply to them because I enjoy more interactions more throughout the feed. I find them to be more fun, more interactive as other’s can jump in, and a better way of building a more genuine and solid connection. I’ve had others do the same with me as far as not replying it’s not something I focus on when on here.

Well, a lot of posters, especially female posters, have stopped checking/reading their DMs because of all the stupid ones they get from males, or even filter them out and only receive the ones from other females.

So I would say unanswered DMs alone aren't a great sign of anything ... and some forget to check or reply to them.

I'd say public interaction would give a better answer.

It's your paranoia. A lot of people don't respond to me. I just unfollow them. It's their loss.

Given up giving a shit

Some don’t like writing, or have nothing to say. Maybe they don’t have the energy for a two way conversation. It could be anything. Maybe they can’t be bothered.

I hardly talk to anybody and never answer messages I am just not a chatty person, if people are lonely buy a cat or dog

Sometimes we just read too much into things like this. Since I only log in a few times a month these days I often have a backlog of messages to catch up with. Folks who know me, know I catch up when I can. The majority of my contacts are people I've known for many years.

I have no clue when SW friends are online, so I wouldn't know unless I saw them.

Maybe they had something of moment they were dealing with. Maybe they only had five minutes until the Uber arrived. Maybe the bathtub was almost full.

There are a bajillion reasons possible.

Paranoia talking.

Most of my sw "friends" I just talk to on the open forum. Unless there is something private to discuss.

I mean unless someone has blocked you, they are probably fine with interacting.

Plas as fast as things move on here at times, it can be difficult to keep up

if you keep on sending texts though and they ignore them then i might think something was up but if you just send one then leave it i wouldnt expect much

Sometimes i don't see messages unless i look for them ...they don't always show up ..
Also,I don't expect instant responses . I know I'm not the only person people talk to .

I don’t have Sw friends ..and i never made any connections either.. I just assumed we are all here to fuck around

It doesn't bother me at all. People have lives/feelings/they get worn down.

Personally I am constantly feeling like a dick for not getting back to the people that reach out to me, but that's just how it is.

You only have so much energy.

I don’t get upset when people don’t respond to my dm’s. I never take it personally and I myself am not good at keeping up with messages because I forget to check my inbox all the time

I don’t need anyone to say hi to me if they see me online. I don’t like to put expectations on my friends or anyone I know and I don’t like when people do it to me

Yeah well it's better to not take those things personal.
If they want to continue talking, they're welcome.
If not it's ok too. Other people will be interested.
It has to flow naturally... Otherwise it doesn't make sense. It's forced.. It's annoying.
And I don't open much to people so yeah.

I am the SW friend who doesn't bother.

I have like 2 followers so i dont care🥸

.. maybe they’re busy..? 🤷‍♀️

No big deal to me

they are probably just distracted or dont feel like talking much. i wouldnt worry

It’s sad when your SW friend which you had from before this place is still here but hasn’t signed on for more than 2 years 😕

Some of us just arent social butterflies.

Or we dont expect DM's , so we dont check them 🤷‍♀️

Hahahah I am so use to it that it doesn't matter anymore

Sometimes I just feel so drained from the pain that I prefer to stick to posts.

I also get lots of DM’s and don’t answer them lol