(I think I know the typical answer to this, but someone thinks otherwise, so I’d like to take a poll.)

You’re chatting on computer with someone for a bit. Then after some days, they ask you something that you don’t reply to for a couple of days. Then they send a message “I hate you.”

What would your reaction be:

A) understand that if they can hate you because you ignore them, therefore they love or respect you.

B) decide you just don’t understand real friendship. It’s your own fault they’re saying they hate you.

C) think that person is awful and not worth hearing from again, and block/ignore/avoid them after that

D) other.

Please, if willing, indicate your gender in your response.

Thanks.

Topics: etiquette, electronic messages, hate, friendship, assumptions