The Facebook "Seen" message gives me a lot of anxiety! When I see that the person has "seen" the message, but does not reply, I start thinking about all the possible reasons why they would 'ignore' me... Does anyone else feel this? If so, how do you cope?

I think our society stresses too much on wanting things and wanting them now, people are no longer patient. Rather then getting worked up knowing someone has "seen" your message, understand that we have the opportunity to wait and reply when the time might be a little more convenient, we don't need it now. I try not to let other's dictate my emotions, it gives them control of my life.

i worry about it also. i start crying and feeling like they hate me. i do not cope well when this happens to me

I feel this way, and I decided that to give myself some peace, I would quit writing to the people who do not respond after reading the messages. It makes my life a lot more peaceful, and they get to learn to communicate with me another way :)

I know how you feel. Ever since Facebook has installed that darn thing I feel like it has made things a bit more stressful on the site! Personally, I've learnt to just take my time and distract myself with other sites or anything else so I'm not waiting around for that person to respond. Plus it doesn't mean they're ignoring you.. sometimes they might not be able to answer straight away or something has caught their attention at that moment. It's not a thing to lose sleep over, trust me.

I feel that way too, whether its on facebook, kik, or imessage. I know it can be nerve-racking, but one way I have gotten over obsessing over a read message is finding other ways to distract myself, and remembering that they're not the most important person in the world. If they are leaving you on 'read' frequently, they probably aren't going to be a very good friend of yours anyway

Sure, someone can be late in replying. But if someone is not replying at all, you need to reconsider if you even need that kind of NEGATIVITY in your life. Perhaps, stop texting people for a while and see who comes to you instead. Those who stay, are worth everything. Hope it helps. Stay strong.

I feel this. Usually I will send them one or two messages like "are you there" to check that they didn't just not notice the message. If they still don't respond I check their profile to see if they might be up to anything that would keep them busy. If that doesn't explain anything, I walk away from the conversation for a bit and find something to do.

I used to get anxiety over this feature a lot, it's like a little reminder that someone is choosing not to respond. But then I started looking at it from their perspective, for example: Maybe they're busy? Maybe something came up and they simply forgot to reply? Or maybe they just have to think about what they want to say next. My advice would be, don't worry about it too much! And if someone ignores you, you could always remind them that they opened the message :)

I remember that in modern society people don't always respond promptly. I remember it is not about me, but rather bad manners maybe.

I know exactly what you are talking about. Social media has unfortunately given us all sorts of reasons to be anxious about things that are probably non-issues. The reality is, people have a right to respond when they feel like it. I am personally used to people instantly responding to me, but i had to accept that not everyone is like that and usually there is a very good reason for the delay.