Why Was Read Massage Neglect Blamed?

from Interviews to First-year University Students

Abstract

In this paper, we will discuss read message neglect（kidoku-mushi）in social media communication. We conduct some interview surveys to clear how first-year university students think about read message neglect, and how they respond to it. The following results are five points. 1) They divide message passing into two types. One type is not to answer messages of question. Another type is to ignore consummatory messages. 2) They criticize the former type neglect. 3) They do not expect any time to get a response in consummatory communication. Despite there is no reply when they feel disappointed. Therefore they recognize that read message neglect is an offense. 4) They seek some means to be faced with negative emotions associated with read message neglect. 5) They feel more insecure about no reply from arm’s-length friends than from close friends.