Is there a texting etiquette regarding how long someone should take to respond to a message? I understand people aren’t on their phones 24/7 and sometimes people are busy.

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I typically take 3-4 days to respond to a text.

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I disagree with the premise that the recipient HAS to respond. It is not necessarily a judgment of how important that PERSON is to the recipient. It’s a judgment of how important that MESSAGE is.

A message from my neighbor (whom I never talk to) about my house being on fire is more important than than a text from my wife about how her colleague looks like she’s having an affair.

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Tbh I kinda want to know more about your wife’s colleague

This is a weird question. If you send/deliver a text, allow the person to respond at their earliest convenience. If their earliest convenience is a month from now, give that person grace and don’t take it personally.

Instituting a best practice aka etiquette for texting response time is just a tad bit too controlling in my book. Do you not have anything else going for you in your life than seat and wait for a response?

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This. OP doesn’t know what the textee has going on into their life. Give ‘em grace

Depends. There are still plenty people who aren’t attached to their phones and then some who turn alerts off. I’m one of the latter so unless I go into the text app I don’t know if someone messaged me.

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For work? For family? For friends? For new love interest? each with different response time and depending on time of day.

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Provide more context. Then we can better help.

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Yea. Really depends. Honestly sometimes the message ain’t as important as you think

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I’ve never met someone that wasn’t on their phone 24/7. So have a hard time understanding why anyone should take more than a couple hours to respond unless you really aren’t that important to them.

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I take days to respond, maybe weeks, and yes I’m on my phone 24/7. It’s not bc I don’t think the message or messages are important, it’s bc (a) I don’t have the energy to respond and/or (b) I want to make sure I respond accurately and thoughtfully so I wait until I have the time and space to do that.

He’s just not into you babe. Drop him

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48 hours if it’s not important. 2 hours if it’s work related and sent during business hours. If you can’t wait that long, call them

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I respond in the following order:
1) urgent/time sensitive (i.e. husband is picking up food so I run the risk of getting the wrong food item - major problemo.)
2) kids need to be picked up/school issues
3) friends that are fun
4) people that are helping me with something
5) people that need something from me
6) friends that are not fun
7) group chats with other school moms/neighborhood ppl- despise these
8) everyone else - never responding to these

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You don’t respond quickly to people helping you with something?! If you did that to me I would never do anything for you.

I don’t do business via text; send me an email if you want a response.

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