You sound like alot of fun. I don't understand. ?

It depends upon their message. If they message me obviously wanting to date or something along those lines and I decide I'm not interested, for whatever reason, I do not answer. Hear me out! For me, rejection is devastating. I would rather someone just not answer me rather than say I'm not interested because of this, this and this.

As a for instance: someone messaged me and I did not respond. About a week later he messaged again. Then a few minutes later said he had messaged me and wanted to know if I got it. I replied at that point saying yes I had gotten them, thanked him for his interest but said I didn't think we were a good match. Unfortunately he came back and asked why. That makes me very uncomfortable. I don't want to hurt someone's feelings or make them feel badly. I said that and he persisted again asking why. I just ignored that one.

However if someone messages me just to chat or whatever then I will almost always message back. Unless I see that they are on a completely different page than I am regarding morals, etc.

depends how I feel at the time but I mostly go straight to the message.

I've been here less than a month so I have only received a few private messages but if I receive a comment that I find interesting then I will generally click on the icon of the person who posted it to see a bit more about them and get a better idea of where they may be coming from.

I usually respond when someone messages me. Not always, because sometimes it doesn't seem a response is really needed, I don't feel the discussion is one I want to have, or I just forget.

When I message someone and they don't respond, I generally assume they did so for basically the same reasons I listed above. I might be a little sad about it, but my ego can handle a little rejection...especially from someone I don't even really know