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Alrunner
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24 Oct 2023, 1:26 pm

How often should I talk to my close or old friends of mine through messaging? I'm just afraid of talking to them too much to the point I would run out of ideas of what to say, and perhaps annoy them.



Mona Pereth
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27 Oct 2023, 6:09 am

There's no hard and fast rule on how often you should talk to friends. That varies a lot from one friendship to another.


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27 Oct 2023, 6:12 am

Mona Pereth wrote:
There's no hard and fast rule on how often you should talk to friends. That varies a lot from one friendship to another.


I agree.

If you have been friends with someone a long time, i.e, many years, you can get away with messaging them less in my experience, without that having any adverse effect on the friendship, i.e, a loss of interest etc.