friends help: if a friends online and they know youre online and you dont message them is that rude? - Help.com

It’s not rude but might be awkward.

well if you had nothin to say to eachother then i think your ok, u spoke to her since?

Well..it could be if that person is your close buddy or a bestfriend of yours? If you don’t really want them to think that you are rude, set your status as “away” or Idle. They could be away from the keyboard too or they are busy so they might not even notice sometimes. You can also just say “hey, whatsup!?”. easy

Well if you’re not sure you can just drop them a line saying that you’re here but you came just to check messages or don’t feel like talking right now or something like that, so then they won’t feel ignored.

i thought u said you both ignored each other im confused

I try talking to my friend on msn almost everyday and most of the time, it takes her like 2 hours later for her to answer..she plays a lot of maplestory(a game)and she can’t see my msg…

well mayb shes got nothin to say to you, or needs space :S have you tried emailing her how you feel

Did you try to ask her what’s the matter?

i think you should give her one last email explainin that you dont kno y she’s acting like this but are goin to leave it up to her to contact you, that way it’s in her hands and mayb she’ll realise then that she needs you

no way, sorry hon but all i can give you advice on what to do, i can’t tell you whether my advice is right or wrong but if you think this is the right thing to do, then you’ll know what to write to your friend

i have a freind that is always im ing me. i get tired of constant IMing, so i just ignore him sometimes. thats pretty rude it is, what i do.

If you’re secure with your friendship, I don’t think I’d worry too much about it. People need some space sometimes to chat with others or they’re doing other things while they are logged in. If it happens ALL the time though, I guess I’d start to think they were trying to tell me something by ignoring me. It’s really hard if every time you get online, one person eats up all your time though… I mean they probably have other people to chat with too, and then it becomes overwhelming… so I guess sometimes you have to ignore others while you’re in the middle of something else… and hope nobody else who’s online gets offended either.

No, it’s not rude. My friends come online all the time and I don’t speak to them. Vice versa.