How to politely ask someone to stop sending low effort…
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How to politely ask someone to stop sending low effort texts?
I have a friend who I hang out with a couple times a week in a gaming group I'm part of. We met a few months ago. However, I'm getting a little annoyed with them because they'll send me really low effort private messages like just "hi" or "wyd". When I respond with a greeting, they'll usually just ask what I'm doing, I'll answer and ask them the same, and they'll usually just respond with something brief like "oh cool". It doesn't go much further from there. At this point I've just started to ignore them unless they send me something more actionable (like asking me for help with something or inviting me to play a game), but even then they just keep sending me the same low effort hellos.
For a bit of additional context I'm working and in school, whereas they're not currently employed or in education. I'm in a pretty stressful part of my semester (which they're aware of), so I don't have as much bandwidth as I usually do. It's starting to get to the point that I'm finding the low effort dms irritating because I'm basically spending my time and energy on a pointless interaction... But I obviously can't tell them straight up that I feel that way because I don't want to hurt their feelings.
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I have a friend who I hang out with a couple times a week in a gaming group I'm part of. We met a few months ago. However, I'm getting a little annoyed with them because they'll send me really low effort private messages like just "hi" or "wyd". When I respond with a greeting, they'll usually just ask what I'm doing, I'll answer and ask them the same, and they'll usually just respond with something brief like "oh cool". It doesn't go much further from there. At this point I've just started to ignore them unless they send me something more actionable (like asking me for help with something or inviting me to play a game), but even then they just keep sending me the same low effort hellos.
For a bit of additional context I'm working and in school, whereas they're not currently employed or in education. I'm in a pretty stressful part of my semester (which they're aware of), so I don't have as much bandwidth as I usually do. It's starting to get to the point that I'm finding the low effort dms irritating because I'm basically spending my time and energy on a pointless interaction... But I obviously can't tell them straight up that I feel that way because I don't want to hurt their feelings.
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