[piva00]

My sister has this annoying behaviour on chats, she will send a "hi, how are you?" and wait for a reply to then proceed with the conversation. I don't reply messages promptly, usually leave it to be replied when I have idle time to get in the context of it, it's not a productivity thing but just something that eases me.

Sometimes it will go days with just that message lingering "hi, how are you?" until I reply to then after a few hours/a day I finally get what she wanted to ask. It's just annoying, I've told her I much rather receive a "hey, how are you? I need some help with X" or whatever else it is the conversation to be. It's just easier and effective async communication (we live in different timezones).