To get really pissed off with friends who don't reply to text mesages?

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Oooo! It really gets my goat! I have sent a few friends from work a text to see if they fancy getting together for a meal out (I'm cuurently on mat leave). I sent the txt FRIDAY and only 2 out of the 4 of them have replied, and the 2 that did reply took 3 days to do so!!! It realy makes me cross, and makes me feel quite worthless tbh, as if I'm not important.

I also have other friends who whenver I am with them have their phone on them constantly, and always reply to texts etc, yet when I text them, they take hours or even day sto reply.

AIBU to think this is just downright rude, esp when the text asks a question that demands an answer!!

Oops. Just remembered haven't replied to friend's text. Right, that's this afternoon written off while I (a) try to find my mobile phone (b) try to find my phone charger (c) try to find the text I haven't replied to (d) spend ages fiddling with my phone while the predictive text creates total gibberish until I fling the dratted thing against the wall, and wish to god she'd just e-mail me.

What time of day/night did you send the text?
Could they have been pissed?
I looked through my phone last night to see a text saying 'Do you want to go to Magaluf Tuesday? You just need to pay name change and taxi fare from the airport?' from a friend.
This friend has been back over a week.

DP says I read it when drunk and said 'Oh, I'll text her in the morning'. I don't remember even receiving it.

YABU. My phone doesn't work in our house as we live in a bit of a black hole. And it's a work phone so I often deliberately don't take it with me if I'm going out for other than business reasons as otherwise I end up being on call 24 hours a day, for which I don't get paid any extra. So it can easily take several days for me to receive texts - usually when I've got in the car to go somewhere so I can't respond immediately anyway - let alone answer to them.

YABU.
It often takes me days to reply. I am not being deliberately rude, but I am busy and yes, sometimes, I forget. Glad none of my own friends have yet taken this offence...

YANBU.

Whilst we must appreciate that texts don't always arrive at a convenient time for the recipient to respond, I would have thought that a reply within 24 hours is perfectly acheivable and just good manners

Would it be rude to add another reply to this post - so long after the OP originally wrote it...?

have you thought that maybe your text did not get thro???

DH got a text last night that was dated last week.............his work-mate text him to say he was not coming onto work that day!

I have often text DH and they don;t go thro for days.....no idea why, either his phone/my phone/mobile people not working together....

I hate texts and texting. I wouldn't notice if I received one for days or weeks. No mobile reception where I live, and I rarely have my phone switched on. Good friends know not to bother sending them to me, and to phone or email instead.

I can't text and have no interest in learning how to but I twell people when they ask for my mobile no. that I don't reply to text messages - they can send them but I can't reply so if they have a question then to call, especially as I also rarely use my mobile/look at it. It's for emergencies only. HOWEVER, if your friends do check their messages on a regular basis and do reply to text usually then they are being rude not responding sooner. They should at least have acknowledged your message and said they would get back to you. So I don't think you are being unreasonable if that's the case.

to all my friends whose texts i have not answered - I have no credit and need to register my new bank card to get more credit and there isn't an option for doing that it seem on my phone and so i am just pretending that if i do nothing it will top itself up...

and that is why

YABU

In addition to what's been said, like meaning to reply in a quiet moment and forgetting, and texts just taking ages to write (because I hate txt spk), sometimes I just can't condense my reply into 750 characters or whatever you're allowed; the person who has sent the text obviously doesn't want to speak to me so am reluctant to call them back, so my brain decideds its all too big a quandry and lets it go .

It might be an age thing? Are they older thank you?

With texts, I often read, delete and forget - know I shouldn't

YABU. Peole make their own choices and you can't judge them because they don't meet your expectations.