To think that if you end a text message with "let me know"

[LiveLoveBoogie]

Really it means just that and that you should show the courtesy of replying and not leaving the texter in abeyance as if your time is MUCH more important than mine"

Rant over !

I was about 36 when people started to text so yes, i was quite alive.
I much prefer texting. I find it less intrusive and I quite like the ambiguity - did they get the text or not? - are they just leaving me dangling? Etc etc.
when people phone nowadays, I feel like they are badgering me

But I think the op is saying that it's the other person who initiated this - and therefore down to them to do the running.

? Off steam? Massive typo

Thanks This..... You are spot on

I got it liveliove ;) I won't leave you in abeyance!

It is bloody annoying when people don't respond to texts. it's the way, corresponding and commumnicating, these days! I've spent hours, days torturing myself waiting for a response and most of the time the friends don't mean to be offensive. I think we should all pick up the phone as someone mentioned earlier! Okay, I hear you,GO TO OPRAH! GO TO OPRAH! That's what the baying crowd would bray at some innocent who would try to help!

I have a mate who gets a strop on if I don't reply instantly, as much as i love her it puts me off seeing her to just get an earful of why I'm such an unreliable bastard and why it's taken so long to arrange to meet up.

Truth is I'm not glued to my phone, if I get a text during the working day or if I'm with other people, I might glance at it, but I'm not going to get into a long conversation because I'm either working or I think it's rude to ignore people in favour of my phone. Chances are I might forget for a couple of days that you even contacted me. I have a life with multiple things happening.

If my full attention is required - phone me. If I don't answer call back later. Do Not Get stroppy because I'm not as obsessive as texts as you....

Sorry for the projection but this winds me up no end!

I can see both sides. This is a particular situation.

And I'm not prone to stropping in such situations .....

Euphemism, I am badgering people if I phone them. I want to know something and so I phone them to get an immediate response. This seems far more sensible than texting somebody on the pretext that you are not badgering them and then getting annoyed because you actually were and they didn't realise so ignored you.

iamsparklyknickers, yes i think you are right. If I don't respond that hour, let alone that day, I am crap at responding. Worse still, I hate answering the landline phone. Cold callers!!!! AAAAAAAAAARGH!

thisisaeuphemisim I use texts when I don't want to be intrusive, so presume if I get no reply then I am!

Maybe text etiquette isn't old enough for everybody to be on the same page yet?

YANBU.

I prefer to make uncomplicated arrangements by text. These are the sort of arrangements that start "fancy getting together for coffee next week?" and concludes with "see you at xxx on Wednesday at 11." A phone call can be much more intrusive and simply isn't necessary.

I hate people who want to have text conversations. If you text me, I consider that like an email or letter and I'll respond at my convenience. If you need to get a response from me to something urgent, then FGS just pick up the bloody phone and use your words.

I have a friend who drives me mental. I'll ring her, because I need to know something (in this particular instance it was needing to know her daughters size because I found a gorgeous outfit I was going to buy for her), and she didn't answer, and got a text a minute later saying "what's up?". Sod off, you've missed out now if you can't have the decency to speak to me and are obviously available.

I hate that we are becoming such a text based society. I actually rang a real estate agent the other day looking to buy a property and there was no address on the listing. No answer (fair enough, probably with a client), so I left a message asking to be called back. I got a text back a few minutes later telling me the address of a completely different address and telling me if I want more information I should come to the open house next weekend. Ummm no, fuck off. That's not even the property I want to know about, I'm currently 2500kms from that property, and I want to speak with a freaking human being. If you want your $25k commission, you can do me the decency of talking to me.

Midnite, an estate agent who won't talk on the phone? Sounds perfect!

Yes, as sparkly says, maybe it's so new there is no text etiquette yet. Or there's so many ways to communicate that we fail to communicate...

I communicate best with texters on a two hour or so turnaround. If I leave it longer than that, I apologise.

I always text. I work in a call centre and don't take my work home with me.