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The notification preview you get on iOS and Android is more than enough to get the gist of a message without you seeing that “Seen at 10:24” read receipt even if they do have them turned on. The odds of someone not knowing they’ve got a message from you within a few minutes, or at most an hour, are pretty much zero. Whether they actually open the message or not, it’s safe to assume it’s been seen. Most people, myself included, look at their phones all the time. The point I’m making applies to them all.Īnd if the message is on their phone, they know about it. NOTE: I’m going to use “text messaging” for this article but you can sub in the words iMessage, WhatsApp message, Facebook message, Snap, or the name of any of a dozen other chat services that work in pretty much the same way. It’s pretty hard to talk on the phone if it isn’t happening in real time even a second or two delay due to bad signal makes the whole thing unusable. Part of the problem is, some people try to treat text messaging as if it’s synchronous (or at least, nearly so). It’s totally possible to respond to a text message days or weeks after it was sent and the conversation to flow perfectly. Phone calls, on the other hand, are synchronous. We don’t both need to be on our phones at the same time for it to work.

I send you a note on my own time, you respond on your own time.

RELATED: How to Keep People From Knowing You Read Their Message on FacebookĪlthough text messaging is a hell of a lot quicker, it’s basically the same as writing a letter. That way, no one can get mad when they see you read their message, but didn’t respond. These notifications are called read receipts, and for some reason, everyone wants to block them from showing up. How could they be so rude as to read your message and not reply right away? The nerve of people these days, right?