Imagine someone messages you at a quarter to 1 on a Saturday night after not answering your last message two days ago. How are you responding?
And if someone triple texts you in the middle of a busy workday and calls you out for your slow reply: What then?
When it comes to the early stages of dating, there are different schools of thought when it comes to how quickly two people should respond to one another. And plenty can get lost in translation, especially when everyone has different styles of communicating. Without much to go off about the other person, a wacky smiley emoji or lack of "lols" can hold a disproportionate amount of weight.