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[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 127 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Orrrrrr he has social anxiety and has difficulty replying.

Sincerely, somebody with social anxiety

[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 19 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] Patches@sh.itjust.works 5 points 6 months ago

First reply> 12hrs ago

Second reply> 2hrs ago

Checks out...

[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 14 points 6 months ago (2 children)

This is me too. That and there is this stupid goddamn idea of "caring too much." Like responding quickly is a bad thing because it makes you seem desperate... Ffs I wouldn't be messaging you if I wasn't interested, but now I need to wait and play a stupid mind game so I don't lose the persons interest because they might assume that stupid thing about quick replies being a bad thing...

I hate mental games so freaking much...

[–] Randomgal@lemmy.ca 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

If the other person cares about silly games like this, they might not be that interested in taking to you.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

Yeah, find someone not into playing head games. There are plenty such people about.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 2 points 6 months ago

There's a Deathbulge comic for that, I just can't find it. Basically a dude taking forever to reply to get "cool points" and accidentally replying immediately a second time, immediately losing all his cool