Sick of people contacting me

[EVIEeeee]

I hate it. I know im lucky to have family. I know i am lucky i have friends. I know im lucky i have work aquaintances. But honestly i get so sick of phones and having to reply to texts and wanting to go on whatsapp to message someone but if i do ill have to reply to the other person.

Its silly niggly stuff like those what you doing today texts from my sister. The work friend whos ringing me 3 times on my day off to rant about her shift. She sends you ok?messages all the the time.

My sister whos always so busy with her own life decided last night at 8.50 to ask if she can ring me to tell me something half funny and half sad. I was so tired i did not have the energy for a half hour phone chat. This is the thing. Everytime my sister or a couple of work people and friends call i have to weigh up if i can stop and be on the phone chatting. For up to an hour.

Dont get me wrong i sometimes love a catch up. But i feel prickly today because im tired and back at work tomorrow and ive hsd so much stuff on this last few days.

I miss the 90s when people left you alone.

I hate it too. I tend to say 'oh go away' when my phone rings. Even though I might want to speak to the person. (I'm autistic)

well get him to go the same then!

Why do you answer? Just turn your phone off, or at least silence all read receipts and notifications, it's really not hard. And if you haven't told them you don't want to be disturbed they'll keep messaging/phoning because you always reply. Just turn it off or tell them.

I came off my work WhatsApp. I like them all but messages all the time out of work were getting too much.

I'm with you on this!

I don't mind the odd message or call but sometimes I'll get everyone all at once texting and lately I'm happier in my own company maybe it's my age. (I am married with kids but I like some peace)

I was born in 79 so I when I was growing up you only had the," when are we meeting up or going out call". And don't even start me on the WhatsApp groups I use to get tagged in. I would leave those 😂

Honestly I think maybe all the contact and being able to access emails etc doesn't help people have downtime after work. Think in France it's illegal to send an email after 6pm!

Mumsnet is so strange sometimes. This thread is brilliant, so many people who get it! But someone started a similar thread not long ago and most replies were saying they should be grateful people are messaging them, only takes a minute to reply, not a good friend etc

My phone is always on silent cos I’m a teacher. If I look at it and see someone’s messaged/rung, I just choose if I want to respond. Sometimes it isn’t possible, especially if you have dc and you need to know if anything has happened at school, in which case change your privacy details on WhatsApp so they don’t see that you’ve read the message.