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When you send someone a message via WhatsApp, Messenger, an SMS or an email, you naturally want to receive an answer as soon as possible. You regularly check your inbox, check your phone and expect a response. But sometimes you see that a message is not read at all. Or it is, but that there is still no answer. Why?
There are many reasons why a message is not answered even though it has been read. You don’t have to immediately think the worst if someone doesn’t answer right away. Not even if that is normally their habit.
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8 Reasons Why Someone Isn’t Responding
Have you checked a hundred times while reading the introduction to see if you have received a response to your message? And have you still not received a response? For many, it is an experience that can completely stress you out, because what if something happened to the other person? Or maybe you said or did something wrong. However, reading a message but not responding usually has a fairly innocent cause. We have listed the most important causes for you.
1. Too busy with other activities
Number one is of course the following reason: people do not answer a message (immediately) because they are simply too busy at that moment. When people are at work, they sometimes want to read a message, but answering is not an option. If you want to be sure that you get an answer faster than after the next working day, take a good look at when the other person is usually online. This is often around the same time, so you have the best chance of success then.
What not to do? Send an impatient or reproachful message that will – with a bit of bad luck – incur the other person’s wrath. Sometimes you just can’t reply and not everyone is glued to their phone all day. And that’s a good thing, right?
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2. Too many distractions
Another good reason why people don’t always reply to a message right away is that they have read it, but are distracted by something else right after. The result: they forget to reply. This can be anything and sometimes you simply forget that you haven’t sent a reply yet, until you realize it later.
People don’t do this on purpose. There are so many distractions and impressions coming at you every day (just all the notifications you receive from apps) that you sometimes forget something. Like, right, sending a reply to a message.
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3. No rush to send a response
Another reason why you don’t always get an immediate response when you send someone a message is that there is no rush to do so. Even if you as the sender think that you do, the recipient doesn’t have to share that thought.
The other person can read the message and, if they feel there is no need to rush, reply at a later time. People often receive so many messages in one day that it is almost impossible to reply to every message immediately.
4. Messages are missed
Also keep in mind that messages you post in a group app with multiple people are not always read equally quickly – or by everyone – in the group. Sometimes a message is missed or quite a few messages have passed before the other person reads it once. Most people do not read everything again. Send a personal message to increase the chance of a response.
Some people also don’t read all the messages you send. They almost only see the last one. Have you sent more messages in a row? There is a big chance that they only read the last messages and only respond to those.
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5. Not interested in answering
It also happens that people who receive a message from you are not interested in it . That is why they do not respond. For example, suppose you met someone the night before in a bar and you exchanged phone numbers. If you are interested in contacting the other person but in retrospect they are not interested in you, it is possible that you will not receive a message back. Not very polite. But if you share a phone number while intoxicated, you may regret it afterwards.
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6. Messages that are actually about nothing
Do you regularly send messages to someone that are actually about nothing? Or do you only send them to have some superficial contact with the other person? There is a big chance that the other person will get tired of it at some point. It is not interesting and maybe even boring. That is the reason why the other person does not respond.
If you keep bombarding someone with rather pointless and nonsensical messages, memes and pictures, don’t expect to get a response to every message. You can also send too many messages.
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7. People who are not so active on social media
Believe it or not: there are also people who are active on WhatsApp, Messenger, Instagram or whatever, but not as active as the rest of the world. Some people only check their messages once every few days – or for an even longer period. Of course, it is not strange that you do not always get an answer right away. This does not happen out of malice, but simply because people are less concerned with that. At least much less than you.
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8. Offensive messages
If you have sent a message in which you hurt the other person in a negative way, it is not really strange that you do not get a response. It is best to let everything cool down for a while (even if a nasty email comes back) and then try to solve the issue properly. Messages can easily be misunderstood. And even if you do not mean anything special by it or have no bad intentions, the recipient can interpret it as such.
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