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If you’d like to avoid these types of socially awkward situations, then hiding your online status might be a good idea, and here’s how. There are reasons for this – a person could be online just to check messages but aren’t free to reply, and more importantly, no one is necessarily obligated to reply to your messages. We’ve all come across horror stories of people getting upset at other people who are online but don’t reply. This is because sometimes, some people think that just because your status is online it means that you’re free to chat and that you should reply instantly. The idea is that it lets you see when one of your contacts is online, but sometimes this feature can be abused.
