People inevitably misinterpret this. It’s not about immediately replying to texts or messages. Fundamentally, it’s about the confusion you cause when you don’t answer, much less read messages from people close to you. Sometimes the messages are literally important. Sometimes they are important because of the state of mind of the person sending them. When people get confused in that manner, most of them are wondering how you could have missed their message, given that your phone is almost biologically a part of your hand. I say that partly in jest. Most of us have experienced it. It’s hard to ask about it because it comes across as needy or accusatory.