Private messages.

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One week

Two weeks

Three weeks

A month

Just forget about the whole thing.

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How long should I keep a conversation in my messages. You know the kind where you sent back and forth several times a day for several days and then your reply is left unanswered. I used to think that no reply in a month was long enough to archive the conversation but I am beginning to think that I should file them sooner. But the other day someone contacted me from two years ago and wondered why I didn't recognize him.

I just was wondering how long others keep conversations that abruptly quit. Sometimes it makes you want to take your stuff down and forget about it.

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djjohnson · 41-45, M

I don't both archiving them unless they have told me they wont be back. I doesn't hurt anything to leave them alone. Sometimes I'll go through old messages and if they account doesn't exist anymore I'll archive it. Sometime though I find someone I haven't heard from in a long time and I reach out just to see how they are and I get a response.