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Had someone ignore my message for several days.

Then we spoke a little and then I became busy for several days.

I responded apologising, which she ignored and so I messaged again. I got a blunt response and explained a very legitimate reason for having taken a while to respond. She had in her introduction an explanation that it’s fine for her to have late replies because she has a life out of this.

I remained calm and polite telling her why I was busy and also that I sometimes don’t get WiFi connection. Accused me of yelling at her (over text) for my message in which I apologised and politely asked her to elaborate on her experience she shared with me.

Still remained polite,and told her that I’m glad that she had a counseller she can discuss things with. At no point did I ‘yell’, swear, accuse etc. Naturally, she blocks me. I don’t know why it’s difficult for some people to just take accountability ‘I overreacted, I consciously ignored you for several days whilst feeling it okay for me to do it to others, thanks for explaining why you are busy and for still getting back to me’.

I don’t know why basic decency is difficult.

I’m still going to be polite and value people but urgh why are some like that? It’s a real person on the other end, with feelings
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DeWayfarer · 61-69, M
This place is absolutely no different than the world outside of the Internet.

Everyone has issues on or off the Internet. The only thing different is you can see their body language off the Internet and react accordingly.

If you have a problem here, highly likely you will have the same problem off the Internet.
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DeWayfarer · 61-69, M
@TheEmperor nah, you are just not qued to body language then. It's there alright. You just haven't noticed it. Likely you don't want to. People don't want to notice body language now days. And that's because of the Internet!
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DeWayfarer · 61-69, M
@TheEmperor the Internet you can't. Therefore you loose the skills!

Use it, or loose it! I used to speak German once. Now I barely understand it .

Do you really get along? Or do you ignore a lot of things? There's no block in real life. So most ignore.

So if you don't understand body language, you are ignoring body language. And everything is fine, without you even noticing it.
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DeWayfarer · 61-69, M
@TheEmperor you are not reading her body language. You even can't see it!

You're loosing whole paragraphs. Likely the whole context. Most people rarely write exactly what they are thinking. They use body language.

Two opposite situations.
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DeWayfarer · 61-69, M
@TheEmperor in her mind it isn't days! It's not real. There's no body language! No context!
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DeWayfarer · 61-69, M
@TheEmperor no it's not ok, yet that situation just isn't possible off the Internet. You complete everything, then and there, and go on.

The body language is the context though. The final shaking of hands, literally!

Want to know why employers now don't want their employees working at home?

Body language is the reason! They can't read it off the Internet. They can't finalize anything either. Everything is up in the air. If it's up in the air it can change.

Hence why you shouldn't block anyone on the Internet. Ignore is a different thing. Ignore people do every day in the real world.

I certainly don't block however. The Internet makes that too easy to do! Yet it resolves nothing.

It's like killing off the person you like for no good reason, other than being annoying.

Killing isn't acceptable in the real world.
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SumKindaMunster · 51-55, M
@TheEmperor This dude is on the spectrum. He gets very strange notions, doesn't critically examine them, and then doubles and triples down on them. He has a lot of nerve calling out other people's peccadilloes.
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SumKindaMunster · 51-55, M
@TheEmperor True dat.
DeWayfarer · 61-69, M
@TheEmperor so you know, the other person, loves to troll me!

That speaks rather loudly about him.
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DeWayfarer · 61-69, M
@TheEmperor sorry. I wasn't attempting to offend you.