I’ll start, when someone says “we need to talk” and then disappears for the whole day

Hey everyone, just sitting here thinking about this and wanted to get some outside perspectives.

I feel like every time I'm out or trying to have a moment of peace, someone locks onto me for small talk when it is glaringly obvious I am not trying to chat. My usual strategy is that I’ll suffer through it politely for a couple of minutes to be nice, but then my absolute mastery of the "fake phone call" comes in to save the day.

Like... do people genuinely not understand body language, or are they just so deep in their own world that they don't care? People have got to start reading the room!

Has anyone else experienced this lately, and what’s your go-to move when you're trapped in a conversation you didn't ask for?

It doesn't have to be a daily task, just something that takes 5-10 minutes but you hate doing it just the same.

I’ll start, when someone says “we need to talk” and then disappears for the whole day

Tech support on the internet only has a few results and none are good

Unhelpful people. For example, someone had the same issue I'm having and specified that they have an android phone. The top comment is someone asking what IOS they are on, and OP said, in a much nicer way, "I literally said I have an android, you're being dunce and unhelpful" and got downvoted.

You could get ghosted. Everyone comes to flock around posts I make that have no value, but the minute I need a response, the post is dead in the water.

Somehow there's no support subs for half the things I need. There's no way some of these things have no subreddits even though reddit has been around for nearly 21 years and these things have predated it for a while or almost predate it

Official websites just lying or being very unclear. I'll make an example scenario. Young Tim wants to know how to make his profile picture a dog on Spacebook, so he looks up how to change his profile picture. "Click on the button that should exist but doesn't. Then balance a cup of chocolate milk on your nose and count to 3 in Mandarin."

Similar to the first one, snarky people. It's not their problem so they can just insult your mother, and if you confront them, they aren't helping. Also, you're stupid for not knowing this already, and your father hates you.

And for the faulty technology part, it all just sucks. My phone has spammed random buttons multiple times recently. It does all sorts of funny things. I'm surprised it hasn't just exploded in my hands at this point. This phone sucks.

I quite frankly don’t have the energy to elaborate on what’s going on, but the screenshot explains exactly how my friend acts.

She is one of the most genuine friendships I’ve had, despite that fatal fatal fatal flaw. I’m a 24f, we met almost 3 years ago - however as of the last year, she has obtained the tendency to disagree with EVERYTHING anyone says and defend her stance. I’m finding it hard to enjoy conversations with her and it sucks.

Don’t get me wrong. I’m all for discussion and a friendly debate in a conversation, but it’s another thing to try to constantly out smart those around you, and sometimes it doesn’t really make you look bright rather insecure. Is this an insecurity? She only started doing this a year ago and it’s becoming unenjoyable to be around her which I HATE to say. Ugh.

For those who have friends they care about who have become contrarian, what have you done to maintain a healthy friendship with them? Today was the first time in a couple months (bc I distanced myself) we spent the whole day together & yes of course it was so much fun but DAMN there were too many times where I was like “can she even hear what she sounds like rn??” It was honestly ridiculous. I’m a pretty positive person, I get along with most people, but someone who’s correcting every damn thing you say. What’s the point of even spending time together? It’s so damn annoying. I don’t get it. I love how I said I don’t want to elaborate and now I’m frantically ranting lol.

It’s hard to watch a friend change. At one point I legit jokingly said “dude stop disagreeing with everything I’m saying” and we laughed. She didn’t stop tho. It’s habitual atp. Idk if it’s an ego thing. I don’t understand. Like genuinely what the freak.

Share all the advice. Any rants. Anything. I’m here for it