Where's Wally?!!

Yes, it happens to me with one particular person, and it upsets me that they are not polite enough to type the words "nite nite". Then, when you see them again, they act as though nothing happened. It really does irritate me. Most people are fine, but you do get the odd one or two like that. Brightest Blessings.

It is a form of rudeness. Perhaps you could talk about it with that person the next time and if need be say your desire to sever ties if that person cannot be personable. It depends on how irritated it makes you. I don't take time to chat much, I really prefer emails. Good luck with this one.

If it was a computer problem, nothing can be done. If it happens often, then that buddy is messing around, and it would irritate me. I'd say bye bye for good.

I guess my answer is "it depends." There are some people I realize I am chatting with while they are at work, and they may simply have to close the chat window because one of their managers/coworkers walk into their cubicle. And they may not be back to me till the following day. And sometimes "stuff" does suddenly come up. Someone accused me of "hanging up" on them frequently... and I couldn't figure out WHAT they were talking about. But at the time I was living in a place where there were frequent afternoon thunderstorms, and the power would go out for a couple of minutes, several times a week. Which made me realize that indeed, I WAS "hanging up." My point being, that there can be many reasons why this happens, not all of them obvious. On the other hand, if someone's just wigging out on you... I guess that's kind of rude. Have you just ASKED that person why they go away?

Oops I am guilty of doing this to friends and family. If i get interrupted by my son and or hubby or I have to go somewhere quickly, I exit without saying goodbye LOL. Living in Samoa we always had connection problems and often I would get disconnected from msm messenger and wouldn't be able to get back on. It use to frustrate my best friend who was living in Hawaii at the time.

I have most of my friends on MSN messenger and so I talk in there a lot. I've found that sometimes, there can be a connection problem and so they disappear apparently without saying goodbye. They're usually back within a few minutes. However, there are those who just disappear without saying goodbye to you. Those tend to ignore me, because, well, we were talking, and they're showing a blatant disrespect for you when they just disappear like that.

Yes it would irritate me as I also think it is rude to go and not say Goodbye. I always say bye or goodnight to people unless my Connection gives up on me which does not happen often.

Yes I have known a couple of people like that. I finally delete them and thats it. If they want to play cames like that they can play with someone else. I even had one friend that the only time I heard from her is if she needed help with scripting in her chat room and some other things.

Instant messenger seems to drop out a lot. When it drops out on me, I try to get in touch with the person some other way if possible. It doesn't bother me when it happens when my friend disappears in the middle of a conversation. It seems to happen more and more these days. If the person is a good friend, they will get back in touch.

I have certain friends that are so renowned for doing this that I get hesitant to actually bother replying to them any more. We'll be in mid conversation, I'll be half way through typing a reply & whoosh, they log offline with no notice. What's even more annoying is the fact that next time they come online they don't acknowledge they vanished & make no attempt to ask what I was in the middle of saying before they vanished last time we chatted. I have one lady friend that will actually log into an online games mid chat & say nothing, just go silent & forget I even exist, yet were I to do the same too her I'd never here the end of it. When I point this out to her, she tells me to stop being so petty? I truly don't understand some folk.

Yes, this certainly irritates me alot, This happens with me as well some people just sign off with their messengers without informing me, or they just sign in as invisible so that no one can't see them online, if they fell they'll chat otherwise not. I also reply them back by doing the same with them, signing off just before as they do. It really irritates me, It feels like kicking the person.

When I am going work on my computer, I get lost in my own world, time has no meaning. I can start doing some work and if I am not disturbed lost 5 or 6 hours. If I am chatting with someone, life or my computer often gets in the way, of course, sometimes I just lose a connection, so I can't talk. If it bothers you so much, ask the person if they are upset at you, explain that you were left hanging and were concerned about it. My friends know that I will often just forget, it is not rudeness. Those who have seen me work, realize what happens to me and how I do lose touch if there is not physical interference to stop my madness

Uhhh...ohhh...maybe you became brutally frank with your friend that he chose to hang up on you. Or maybe your friend felt that everytime he/she is talking with you that he/she suddenly need to answer some call of nature. It didn't happen to me yet, wizarrrd. But one thing I observed lately is that if someone PM me and I answered back, they never bothered to reply. But I get use to it. And no, it doesn't irritate me one bit.

I have had that happen in the past and it's quite rude.If someone has to go ,I don't see why they can't just say so instead of leaving the person dangling.I wouldn't keep on putting up with it.Once yea,but more than once and they are gone

I used to be the one poofing or still am at times. Now ya see me now ya don't. Sometimes I have to get off to let my mother use the compute and she does not have alot of patience, most of the time for me it happened because I had slow dial up, or I may do it if I have to run to make sure my dogs are not chasing cars or doing something stupid.. I love my dogs but I gotta keep an eye on them to keep them out of the road.. if I tap the door every so often they automatically come to the porch..... Other times power goes out.. or just a couple of times got some viruses that I had to clear... But when I see others doing it, I figure they are more irritated than I am, so I do not think anything about it... - DNatureofDTrain

it is really important to me. How long does it take to say goodbye or brb? such rudeness is not tollerable. Depending on the status of the relationship, my first thought is, why should i be relegated behind a telephone call? If im in a conversation, i expect to be treated as if i was in the same room as someone, its just common curtesy as far as i can see blessed be

Sometimes things happens - like you get a phone call, or someone walkes in and starts talking to you. i understand that that may happen. i do like for people to come back and say what happened and say goodbye though. I think it cannot be that hard to be a little bit polite. It is in fact just the same as if you just hang up the phone without saying goodbye. i think most people would find that a little bit rude.

I'm sometimes guilty of this one I get distracted by people coming round or something else on the internet and just forget. I don't mean to be rude I just forget the persons there i always apologize the next time I chat to them.