My Chatting Rules

My Chatting Rules

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Social media is another world where people live like in the physical world. In our day, that virtual world seems to be more realistic than the physical one.

Many people like myself see that world as our home, we are more confident, free, and social there than in the physical world.

Since social media is a world, people definitely have different perspectives about life there. Everyone on the platform has the way they like things to be and how to interact with them.

The fact that we have the liberty to approach anyone doesn't mean that we would get a response from them, everyone is the Chief Executive Officer of their account, and they have rules guiding their activities. For most individuals, once you break certain rules that they set around communicating with them, you may never receive feedback from them even if it was gold you wanted to give to them.

When it comes to texts I don't really have so many principles. I believe that everyone can't be me, if I say I'll go by principles a lot of people won't be able to approach me because they will not know what I want and what I don't, and even if they do know them, trust them they will break them at one point or the other.

Worst of all, there is no provision on any social platforms for us to pin our rules to private chatting to the audience.

Chatting with me is easy, you can message me anyhow, anytime you want be your stranger or someone I know. If you have something you need to discuss with me, be free, to let your text come in the language you can flow with best.

However, one thing I know I don't tolerate and will never tolerate is approaching me disrespectfully, some people lack manners when it comes to chatting. They don't even check what they type and weigh it before sending it.

There was a time when a guy I knew needed help from me, we talked a couple of times and I assured him I was going to help him but I didn't eventually, in fact, I stopped replying to him because of his manner of approach, this guy will just send message like I was his boy or something.

You would see pride clearly in every single sentence, when I discovered that he was full of himself, I started viewing his messages and stopped replying.

The fact that we have access to people freely on social media doesn't mean we should talk to them any time we want. Applying respect in the way we chat with people matters a lot.

I am a very simple person, I know I am not anything but I respect myself. If you bring any nonsense message to my inbox trust me, I'll view it and not reply. The day you start making sense I'll start replying else, they will hang there till further notice.

I don't know what some people think, before I send a message to anyone, I try to weigh it, read it, and assume to be the person, if it doesn't sound well, I don't proceed. Even with my friends, I know the kind of messages I send to them. I wonder how people just send nonsense to people and are comfortable with it.

Another thing I despise is someone being insistent on me while chatting, if I tell you "No" it means no if you continue to pressure me. I'll leave your messages without a reply, I don't believe in blocking people. I think viewing the message without replying sends the message better.

In real life, those principles have helped me apply respect in communicating with people, no matter the age, I believe for anyone to give me a listening ear is not a right but a privilege, so I should honor it.

If you insist so much on me, I will go mute, you will talk and get tired and I will not say a thing when you decide to change the topic, then we can finally flow together.

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