This is strange...

I actually got an email on Myspace from someone I haven't seen in 13 years. It was like a 3 page email filling me in on her life....I emailed back and then never heard from her again. Very strange.

This has happened to me...twice. I have found two friends through facebook. One was a friend when I was very little, her family lived down the street and we were "best friends" for at least 5 years....until we went to different schools. The other was a girl that I met in middle school and we were friends through our early twenties. She did not get along with my boyfriend/future husband (now ex) and slowly our friendship evaporated. I did get in touch with both of them and they did respond at first. But, that was it. I think part of it was that they live completely different lives than I do. I have a husband and lots of kids and they don't. It is kind of like they feel we have nothing in common anymore...but I look at it like we are still the same people we were years ago just older with more things going on in our lives. I wish it had turned out differently but at least I know I tried to get back in touch with them.

Most definatly! My card list between the lack of response and the cost of postage has dwindled down. I love when people say the good ol' "stay in touch" line.... it seems most people never mean it. I know it's not the easiest after quite a length of time to start communicating again but even just a hello and some of the latest "big" news updates in ones life is sufficient but even that can be rare.

I guess everyone is busy, and if someone doesn't respond to your contact straight away it quickly becomes forgotton. I know I'm guilty of this sometimes. I have two letters sitting in my kitchen which have been there for ages waiting for me to reply.

One day I meet this young woman about my age. She had a baby who was five months older than my son and had a birth defect that was killing him. She gave me her number so I could call her to have a friend to talk to. About a week later i saw headlines in the paper of her son dying. Apparantly he was born at 21 weeks with a birth defect. She had him premie due to stress. He fought the birth defect for seven months then finally lost the fight but at least he wasn't suffering anymore. I gave her a call after seeing the paper. I talked to her mom who told me she was always on the go now that she spent more time away from home. She never called me back, but looking back I can see how grief could make it hard to talk to those who try to reach out to you.

This is strange! Hell Katsmeow1213, how it's it going today? Now let me tell you that I have never had the experience that you're speaking of here but I do happen to know that people in general move around about every seven years so you might want to keep that in mind. Not everyone is able to be able to chit chat and stay in touch. I guess that's the reason why someone invented the internet. Currently I have very few friends from my past that I bother to keep up with. Sometimes there is a problem with distance then other times it's just a matter of loosing interest in the other person. Hope that you find all the happiness ur searching for....... Happy Mylotting!

It happens to me all the time. Sometimes, they are just busy and can't get to computer or another thing, they just lazy to respond back or sometimes it is too late to mail back the card. At first, I was so concern about it and always kept email to them. But it just piss me off too much and I just forget about it, once they email me and will return back as soon as possible. If he/she is very close to you then you could call him/her to find out, sometimes they move to different place and never get your mail or something.

I happened to me just recently. I have a friend who had a vacation to our country. I keep on sending her message every time she is online but she never replied to me. I buzz, I send messages and I even emailed her but did not respond even a single word. I called her by phone and she never answered me. I am just wondering if.. she is upset with me? or what? I have no idea why she never replied.

oh i do that all the time. its like i know a person and i add them and i haven't seen them in a while so i don't send a hi or anything but if they do I'll reply one only cause i can't really be bothered to reply anymore and i barely go on social networking sites cause i rather be actually socializing. i just add them so i can see how they look like now and whether they're good after that im not really bothered to talk to them. its a nasty habit i know, but im sure they don't mind it either, otherwise they would have wrote something back to me. don't stress over it. cheers mate.

This has happened to me quite a lot actually! This is a sad thing but I guess this happens over the years. I have lost touch with family members and I recently made the effort to locate everyone. However, we were exchanging emails for a while and then suddenly things became quiet which was a bit strange. I think that there's a saying that once things have been left for many years we kind of fall into a routine of doing things and we become comfortable with that routine and I guess we are then reluctant to change to something new or different. I guess this relates to family too! We have been apart for so many years and there's no longer an exchange of emails or cards or anything. It's a sad state of affairs but there you go. Andrew

I think it has probably happened to everyone at some point. During the course of life- people fall out of contact with each other and later recontact and often times fall out of contact again. It's a part of life that is sometimes difficult to get- I know I've been there. Good Luck to you and know that you will more than likely come across old friends again.

It happens a lot but I do not care about it very much. I have a lot of friends who have no contact for a long time. Sometime I got E-mail or messages from these friends and I sent back. After that, another "long time no contact". But that is OK. I know my friends are enjoy their time and they know I am quite fine. That is enough. A hedge between keeps friendship green. Do not worry about no response too much. For me, sharing time with the friends around are more important.

it happened to me many times.old friends,acquaintances,relatives,ex-lover etc.and i find it vey strange coz im not expecting it to happen.there was one time,i've been searching for this old friend of mine since elementary,i searched for her thru the net,friendster,myspace,facebook to name a few and i never found her.and one day i recieve a message in my cellphone and i cant believe its her,the friend that im lookin for years.i cant believe it actually but its her,so i replied and we had a never ending text messaging that day,our whereabouts and our lives and our conversation runs smoothly.i am very happy that finally we're able to communicate with each other.i thought that is the beggining of our reunion but then i dont know what happen that all of a sudden our communication ended.her number is unreachable,so i emailed her,sad to say until now i didnt get any reply,i've sent a lot of email but still no reply,i dont know what happen,no idea actually..isnt it strange? hhhmmmm...:)

honestly, i've never tried getting back in touch with someone i hadn't seen in a while, but a lot of the time, people have been known to not respond to my first contact, and other people have been known not to continue a conversation after they start one with me, on social networking sites

I've had that happen lots of times. a bunch of people i knew from school added me on facebook or myspace but never contacted me after that. i hadn't heard from a high school friend for a few years so I decided to try to contact him. I sent him a hello card to the last address i had. he called me then and we talked for an hour. it was like nothing had changed. he said he was going to be coming home for a visit soon and we'd get together. he was supposed to call me back with the details and his number. that was in august! never heard from him. I'm going to contact him one more time and if he doesn't respond i'll just let it go i guess.

yea,i had someone i knew a while back invite me to a social network-i assumed she wanted to talk to me about something.but once i got there,she never responded. it's like,"why the hell did you even bother me then?" i guess she just wanted to see if i'd answer. people are weird.

Hi Katmeeow, This is a normal phenomenon here I have witnessed, I have not counted on but can] tell you that I respond to too many discussion s but have not got any coment from them. Are they ghost or they are ignorant that one needs to comment back whatsoever is the response. This seem s a case of paranoia.

yes, happened to me, i don t heard about somebody long time, after i send few messages, maybe he don t want answer. Any way, saw him online, so don t happened something with this person, but maybe just don t want to be in touch with me. I am sure that this can happened with all, to internet, know somebody, and after he or she find new peoples with who like to talk, is simple.