do your friends often not answer the phone

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when ever you try to call your friends up, do you often find that almost 9 out of 10 times they won't answer? i find that happens with me quite regularly. i used to take it personally but now it doens't bother me as much because i'm beggining to think that it's normal regardless of how much a friend likes you or not. I'm think maybe it has to do with the advancement in the age of everyone having instant cell phones and that's causing people to not answer phones as much, but that's just my personal theory. Do you find that people are hard to get a hold of for you too?

I don't always get text messages responses from a few of my friends. I am now working on the basis that I must figure out their schedules insofar as I know when I can message/call/whatever them without them being busy. For example, I now longer text many people during 'work hours'. Perhaps they are not hard to get hold of, just hard compared to me, who gives near instant replies to all communiques (and within the hour for the rest).

I don't normally answer my phone when it rings. I sometimes leave it off the charger until the battery runs down and remember to plug it in a couple days later. Even when it is charged, I don't carry it around with me, and I prefer to let it ring and look up the number to find out who it was if I don't have the number programmed into my phone already. If it's someone I want to talk to and I get a missed call, I'll call them back, but I don't always notice right away, so it could easily be several hours later.

So I wouldn't take it personally, unless they respond quickly to everyone else.

i have no idea. i never ring anyone. . so i do not know who they know, and i could not be bothered investigating them anyway.

most people are much more interested in me than i am in them. if one has a sticky personality, then one will emerge from a social engagement with many open mouths pointed in your direction.

whatever good night

Regardless of how much I like someone, I usually take ages to respond to texts - usually because I read it when I'm on my way somewhere or I'm at work, then forget about it. Same with phone calls, I'm usually busy, don't answer in time and then forget anyone even called me. I blame smart phones. Old phones were easy to text on because they had actual buttons. Now with a touch screen and autocorrect, I have to stop what I'm doing and really focus to respond, so I never usually bother unless it's really important.

I often don't answer my phone because they call me at the wrong time or I missed their call so I wasn't there. I also don't return calls often because I keep forgetting and I don't like to change my routine to talk on the phone. Phones are different for me for some reason and I don't like talking on them either.

So to me if someone decided to avoid me so they stop responding to my calls, I wouldn't even guess they are trying to avoid me. I learned that calling someone too much can turn into harassment. I don't really call people.

they are not friends if they dont answer
usually my friends are like me supersensitive and they wont do such thingss with me.

I'm usually the one that doesn't answer the phone, I rarely get called now anyway. I made it clear to friends that I hate talking on the phone just for the sake of talking, I will answer however if its of importance and its the best method at the time.

Yeah I'm pretty much the same. I have only one friend who still calls me up to chat, and I only answer her call about half of the time, depending on how I feel at the time about having a difficult conversation. I never make phonecalls to friends, so I don't know if they would answer or not.

Actually no because I never do call out unless it is urgent and too much to text... I have had calls from them though.
I text when I find time to talk to them and we normally just text about a bit... though recently I've not heard back, probably since they change numbers so much. XD
Sometimes they do answer my call, sometimes they don't. I don't look into it any further.

This happens to me but instead I never get a text back from anyone.

yeah i'm pretty bad at answer the phone myself

The answer to this dilemma is simple and is as follows:
First, get a really cool Job (Rockstar makeup artist for the stars or a publicist or stylist.) you know, A career that most would DIE to have, then just wait, you won't have to make any phone calls anymore- they will be blowing pup your phone. Trust me people are self serving a***holes and even if they don't admit it, they want to have friends who can help their own carreer. If all of a sudden you are getting invites from Katy Perry, J-Lo, and Kanye and Kim, to the latest parties I bet you will be assigned your own ringtone and all your "FAUX friends" will want to spend as much time with you as possible.

I feel the same way but with text as said above. I text or message them and I may or may not hear back.... some of the chat systems will tell you if they opened and seen your message so that only hurts more when that happens and they still don't respond.
Have your good weeks and bad weeks with dealing with the outside world, this is just a bad 2 weeks for me, all winter really but really hoping it pulls back for the better really soon. It just seems though the more you try to involve yourself with other people the more it just turns you down constantly...

I feel like I have a lot of friends who just decide not to respond to me. I'm probably being too sensitive, but I don't do that. If I get a call at a bad time, I don't answer, but I'll at least send a text acknowledging. I hate talking on the phone, but I wouldn't just ignore anyone. I have friends that don't respond to a call or text period. That makes no sense to me.

Nobody ever calls me. I'm always the one doing the calling. Once in a while my friends will call me... not that I have many friends. But I'm the only one who does the calling most of the time. People seem to prefer texts these days and I don't like texts because they're too impersonal and I can't detect sarcasm, anger, and other emotions in text, and sometimes i misinterpret things unless I can hear the person's voice. I'm already bad with emotions and texting makes it worse. It's also inefficient. In the time it takes to send 4 texts back and forth (60 seconds) we could have just had a 20 second voice convo and gotten through it.

I wish people called me more often. The only person who calls me with any sort of regularity is my father.