> And you can mark a message as unread if you can’t respond in the moment and want to come back to it later. I find it funny and sad at the same time that we o

> And you can mark a message as unread if you can’t respond in the moment and want to come back to it later. I find it funny and sad at the same time that we ourselves have created such a social pressure for synchronous communication that we prefer to use a form of lying rather than change the status quo and learn people to accept the fact that reading a message does not mean one has to reply immediately, and that one is not rude or disrespectful if they reply later.[0] [0] Unless you are dating and playing one of those status games trying to prove the other person cares more.