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anyone else playing the WhatsApp game of 2019?

19 replies

EducatingSweary · 02/01/2019 20:46

I might just be only me at this party

but im keen to know where I lie in my pecking order of friends

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Dextrodependant · 02/01/2019 20:47

What are the rules?

EducatingSweary · 02/01/2019 20:48

oh i should add
my rule is Not to be the first to message them - - I always am--

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BasinHaircut · 02/01/2019 20:48

Eh?

potatoscone · 02/01/2019 20:48

You should play the game of 'grow up'

theveryhighlife · 02/01/2019 20:49

???

EducatingSweary · 02/01/2019 20:51

oh i am very grown up thankyou

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Move2WY · 02/01/2019 20:54

your game is to not message anyone and wait for them to message you first?

Why are you so insecure?

potatoscone · 02/01/2019 20:55

oh i am very grown up thankyou

Your post tells a different story..

BasinHaircut · 02/01/2019 20:55

I don’t understand, are you not contacting anyone until they contact you in general?

Why do you have to use WhatsApp to communicate?

EducatingSweary · 02/01/2019 20:55

I should also add that this isn't a troll thing

im genuinely interested where my friendships are at the start of this year - I've been leaned on and probably used by friends last year (leant money and so forth) so this year I'm not biting and just sitting back and waiting to see who is genuine.

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Move2WY · 02/01/2019 20:56

I just get on with enjoying my friends- I don’t expect them tobrate me in a pecking order. I feel sad that you need this

BasinHaircut · 02/01/2019 20:58

But I can go months without talking to some of my friends, coz just life. Doesn’t mean I don’t value them it’s just our relationship.

Actually the ones I see the least I communicate with via WhatsApp the most TBH

EducatingSweary · 02/01/2019 20:58

there's a wider story hard not to drip feed but would be very outing ive had a shit year, felt anyone who professes to be a friend is only there when they can gain something from me.

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BramRang · 02/01/2019 21:00

What if everyone started doing it? Then no one would talk to anyone else and we'd all be lonely...

Kintan · 02/01/2019 21:01

What if you and your friends are all playing the same strange game? No one will ever contact anyone else ever again!

Dextrodependant · 02/01/2019 21:02

I am guessing you are feeling taken for granted this year. I see where you are going with it all but you will be much happier of you just cut out the toxic friends and concentrate in people who make you happy.

LucyInTheSkyy · 02/01/2019 21:05

But friendships work in different ways at different times, don't they? Sometimes you do more of the contact / organising, sometimes you're busy and it's the other way around? Keeping track is bound to lead to upset and disappointment....

Kneesbend · 02/01/2019 21:36

But they could be not contacting you because they are dealing with a bereavement or redundancy etc? How does that make you feel better? Tis a genuine question.

Ilovetolurk · 02/01/2019 21:41

Disappointed to open this thread to find out it’s not an actual whatapp game

This being Chat and all

If anyone has any ideas that don’t involve “not actually doing any WhatsApping” do tell

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