Pet peeves, despite being fundamentally annoying, can be fun. Or rather, one can laugh at them. Or rather, one can laugh at the people who have some silly pet peeves. Or, you can commiserate and list out your own. Today, someone shared with me several of their pet peeves. And, they were really worked up. As I listened I started thinking of my own pet peeves.
And just in that moment I got a text message from a friend who said “Hi. How’s it going?” I believed he really wanted to know. Why else text? I responded quickly and then tick tock. Tick tock. It was the same experience in a group chat. One had texted us all and the rest of us responded quickly and she didn’t respond for hours. This was not the first time.
I have come to realize there are some people who reach out and that is good enough for them. If you respond it is cool but they feel no immediate need to further respond. They get distracted. They get called into other things. They go to sleep. They have 20 other conversations occuring simultaneously.
I suppose it is nice that they made an effort to show they are thinking of you. It is a nice gesture. But it irks me to just have it be a “one and done” communication till the next one (way later on). Why start a conversation if you can’t follow it through?
We are so easily fragmented. We so easily move on to something or someone else. I have gotten used to it. I don’t like it but I have learned to expect it.
Categories: Culture, Psychology, social media
psychologistmimi 
There is nothing better than feeling corresponded when you start a conversation. Distractions denote the little interest to follow it. I consider it rude. Excellent reflection.
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Thanks. So true what you say!
I find it rude as well.
Hope things are good with you
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Twitter Age Hotel
No Rooms Available
Come And Go Humans
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Hmm. Twitter age hotels! Interesting
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Chances are the
Roach Motels Will
Endure more than
280
Characters..;)
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Yes!!!!
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Hehe..;)
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BTY.. i’M Diagnosed By
4 Professionals With
Autism And I’m The
Least Autistic Person
i Know
Now
That i am
Re-Tired
Enough From
This Culture to
Roll With Human
Wheels.. It Is Culture
That Was/Is Truly Autistic
More Than Ever ‘Advancing’
That Way of Meaningless Text
With Little
Organic Soul
No Voice of Humanity
So i Dance For there is no
Choice For People to Hear
My
Humanity….
And See that i
Am Human I Guess
i Need to Find ‘Phone Home’
-ET
‘They’ Didn’t
Feel My HeART….
SMiLes ..Thanks
For the ‘Idea’
PM.. That’s my
Pet
Peeve For the
Day I need a Cat….
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I have the same feeling about bloggers who throw out a topic but never come back to that conversation. Or who close comments from the very beginning. Hard to stay interested in one-way communiqué people.
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My pet peeve rudeness unnecessary ill manners. Not saying sorry, excuse me Please, or thank you. (Not meaning you or any of the nice folk on WordPress.
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