My friends in a group chat sometimes have something to ask me so they be like: ‘Hey, Critical_Insight?’ - to which I two hours later reply: ‘Yeah?’ and then maybe an hour later I get the actual question and an hour from that I reply to it. If they instead would’ve just asked the question in the first message, I then would have answered to in in my first reply, and then be done with it. Maybe it’s just me, but I see that as waste of everyones time.
What’s the disadvantage? I really only see advantages.
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you: hey
you: are you free right now?
other: nah. Sorry
other: but I shold have time around 17:00.
you: Ok. Call me when you’re done. It’s kinda important
other: Ok
The first message introduces a conversation followed by a follow up. As soon as you send the first message it’s easier to send the second one too since you already introduced the conversation.
The other person then answers with a short answer where they don’t really have to think about what they write and how they write it. You instantly get an answer.
Critical_Insight@feddit.uk 1 year ago
noodlejetski@lemm.ee 1 year ago
nohello.net/en/
as opposed to:
flames5123@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The amount of times I’ve had to send this to other developers is infuriating. I’ll wait 5 mins for them to send the part after “hey.” I’m not replying back without an inquiry. I’ve got work to do.
EssentialCoffee@midwest.social 1 year ago
I don’t bother responding to ‘hey’ messages either. Tell me what you need.
ramblinguy@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Yeah same here, if they don’t say anything after “hey”, then I’m not going to put in additional effort to get more work dumped on me
newIdentity@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
I don’t really see a problem with that. Also it shouldn’t vibrate if you’re already in the chat. So that really isn’t a problem since you usually see that the other person is typing and usually wait for them to send the message as long as they aren’t taking too long.
noodlejetski@lemm.ee 1 year ago
and I do, because it doubles the amount of notifications I receive. if 5 people ask me something that way, I end up with 10 notifications, half of them being a pointless “hey”. it’s just plain inconsiderate.
I don’t always immediately rush to check my phone when I get notified, especially when the alerts are fired in a rapid sequence like that.
newIdentity@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Then you’re slow. I almost always have the phone in my pocket