Block and delete 🙄

[TheRossatron]

Am I the only one who thinks this is SO fucking immature? Everytime I hear the word "block" my shit cringes. Yes if someone is harassing you then totally block them fair enough. But people seemingly do it just to stamp their feet and throw a tantrum. I had an olympic sized fall out with a friend a couple of years ago, she randomly sent me a happy new year message on watsapp in January, I replied politely but vaguely as I don't want to restart the friendship. She obviously realised this... and blocked me. Righto. People on here or in real life have dates with men who end up not being interested or just walk away after a one night stand or whatever... and then block them. You know you could just ignore them in the unlikely event they will message you again? Because if the person you are blocking doesn't give a shit anyway and has no intention of bothering you - you just look like a prize knob. Grow the fuck up. Please.

There, my Saturday morning rant is over. I'm off out for a walk. Peace x

Op probably sent the offender a message and its stayed on grey ticks.. so she sent another and that stayed on grey ticks..
So she sent another just to let the offender know that she doesn't care that the offender has blocked her.

She hasn't cared for several weeks now and to prove how much she doesn't care and hasn't cared for weeks now, she started a thread on MN to let everyone know how little she cares.
Obvious how little she cares when you think about it.

Such a weird thing to spend brain space on

If somebody implies they don't want go te your friend then it would be quite acceptable to block them. Then the friendship is closed and nobody is in doubt.

Hang on, if you block someone do they get told or do they only find out if they message?

If it's the latter then the OPs point is silly because if you block people who never intend to message you again they'll never know about it, so you won't look like a knob.

Clearly I've never blocked or knowingly been blocked!

Blocking someone, unless you're being harassed, is completely unnecessary and dramatic.

I had a guy block me recently on everything, except one thing.. speaking to a male friend about this he confirmed some guys do this to prove a point but keep one line open for their convenience 🙄

I agree op, it is very immature to block someone unless you're being harassed by them. You can just ignore a message, you can even delete the message without opening it if you're worried they will see you've read it. In some cases, them seeing you've read it but haven't replied speaks far louder than blocking them.

Blocking (unless abuse/harassed)is the equivalent of throwing a toddler tantrum.

I agree op, it is very immature to block someone unless you're being harassed by them. You can just ignore a message, you can even delete the message without opening it if you're worried they will see you've read it. In some cases, them seeing you've read it but haven't replied speaks far louder than blocking them.

What's the point in leaving messages unread or deleting them without reading them? why is letting them see you've read it and are not replying so much more mature than deciding you don't want the lines of communication open? If I don't want someone in my life I block then move on instead of having to decide whether to read and ignore or delete it without opening it or let them see I've read it bit ignored it. I can't be bothered playing games.

You'll often know if someone has blocked you if you can no longer see their picture or content.

One of my closest friends met a man OLD, they went out on a day date had a great time, extended the date and went on for dinner, he dropped her home after some teen style car snogging. She was on cloud nine, then he just didn't contact her, after being in frequent message contact. Advice here would've been block and delete, about ten days later she got a message from his dating account from his sister, he'd been in a car accident on the way home from their date and was still in hospital having had to have a number of surgeries on his pelvis and leg, phone was destroyed in the accident, but we'd worried she would think he was ignoring her. She went to see him at the hospital. That must've been 12/14 years ago, they're married with three children.
This is an extreme example but some of the advice here is encouraging blocking 24 hours after a date, people including men have other things going on in their lives and if they don't message you straight away or ever again they don't, blocking them isn't going to change that. Of course if they harrass you or send a message you don't like block is there. It just feels a bit petty, a bit oh I didn't like you anyway

"But why assume harassment would start at all? You obviously think a lot of yourself! 🤣"

@TheRossatron are you aware how ignorant and unpleasant that post makes you sound? Fucking hell.

I think blocking is the equivalent to holding a grudge. Unless someone has abused you or sent you a serious amount of harassing messages, who on earth can be bothered to hold on to a grudge like that.

Because if the person you are blocking doesn't give a shit anyway and has no intention of bothering you - you just look like a prize knob. Grow the fuck up. Please.

if you didn’t give a shit you wouldn’t be posting on an anonymous forum swearing and taking swipes at people who didn’t disagree.
if you had no intention of bothering the person you wouldn’t know you were blocked.

I’d block you too

I only block people that I would completely blank if I saw them face to face.

As my father's family are fucking insane that's a fair few people but it's about self preservation, not ego.

I block al the time. If I genuinely don't want to hear from someone again, then to me it makes sense to block them.