DeepGreenEyes
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That’s a good summation of social media tendrils, with larger context.My kids call it being Mom.
I’m not that bad at answering in places like this, as long as I visit regularly. Messages during the day though, on the multitude of apps that people make me use for different things, are a different case.
I answer when I see it, if it is a pressing question but otherwise I’m usually busy with work, decide to answer later and then…”Squirrel!”….
In a way yes, bad manners.
In another way, we have built a system with strange expectations of being avaliable at all times and to be in those messenger groups that seem to contain every freaking ”reply all”-monster in your circle.
And we have created those inbetween categories of people that we can feel rather close to but actually could fall off the Earth without us having any other contact info than via a place like this to find out what happened.
(I’ve long suspected that you are actually a very smart squirrel who can hop around quickly to type.)