All these online friends who I love to IM, how they irritate me so. I love them, or at least one, but.. man.. I'm usually a patient person, could be very calm, understanding, and enjoyable.. but my attitude changes depending on how I'm treated in return. Recently my patience is being tested by two people who take HOURS AND HOURS to respond to an IM. Usually as I'm sure you know people will say 'brb' or 'afk' or 'I have to go do such and such, I'll be back on later' and they log out. But nope, these two wonderful people will just abandon me in the middle of a conversation, sometimes leave me hanging for over 3 hours, waiting for a response to a simple freaking statement.

Why? How much effort does it take to just say good bye and log off. I had people who would say "I'm going to go shopping/play video games/nap/study/whatever now, I hope you don't mind" and I would say "Of course, go right ahead, I don't mind at all." They would leave, not come back for 6 hours or the next day and I would be perfectly as cheerful and bubbly as before because they were considerate and let me know.

When people just leave where do my feelings come into play in this situation and why does this only happen online? It's not like if you were talking to someone face to face and suddenly got bored would it be acceptable to turn around and start walking away. No, it's rude, and your friend would probably be a very angry monkey and **** will start flyin' the next time you see them.

I don't know how to explain to them calmly how irritated I feel when this happens.. because I'm usually irritated out of my mind when it's time to explain. When I'm mad I just want to stomp around, play the blame game, and rant and rave until that person is left feeling like dirt. Of course, if I wanted to lose my friends this would be the best way to go about explaining but I don't. So what am I supposed to do?