Some people don’t answer me I don’t know why. They don’t see my messages. It makes me sad because it seems I can’t have friends. I don’t know if people are playing with me or they just don’t like me. There are true friends who answer me in time, but there are ones who don’t want to talk back. I don’t know if the problem is with me or is with the others. Maybe I have too much anxiety and people have no time.
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I don’t know if you saw the thread on here the other day but many of us were confessing to be bad at keeping up with PMs, so we’d stop responding just because of our own inability to keep up with it rather than the other person. So it may not be related to you at all.
Also here is a conversational tip. Many people I have noticed who try to chat online will start a conversation with simple things like “hi” or “want to chat” or “what are you doing” etc. These are not very good conversation starters, and won’t generally lead anywhere great. I recommend greeting with a topic to talk about such as "Hey, I saw this post by you and I was wondering about this, or “I felt the same way about this” etc. Or if you’d just like to get to know them, ask specific questions to start out. “When did you first know you were ill? What’s some of your favorite books?” Etc. Rather than saying something like hey what’s up.
I know many people on here struggle socially so those are some good tips I’ve found to help start online chats and keep them going!
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Very smart tips, @Anna and thank you so much. I was trying to talk with people on WhatsApp and Facebook. Maybe I don’t offer many interesting stuff.
Where did you get these tips?
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I’ve just picked them up over time as I’ve chatted to a LOT of people online.
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