"As a general rule, you shouldn't text somebody after 9 p.m. It may be seen as an intrusion of privacy, or they may feel you're inserting a sense of urgency that doesn't need to be there. As for the morning, if school hasn't started and you wouldn't expect the person to be at work, it's best to wait.
Yes, most experts agree that late-night texting is kind of rude. Some people don't turn their phone on silent before they go to sleep, so a late-night text could wake them up. If you know the person you're texting is an early to bed, early to rise type of person, you might want to hold off on the late-night texting.
Don't text too early or late
To avoid waking someone up, don't text too early or late. “The rule is 7am to 9pm, but if you know the person well, you can probably push that range out a little bit,” says Post Senning.
The unwritten rule was: don't call before 9 AM or after 9 PM to avoid waking anyone sleeping. People should apply the same rule today. It is simply rude to call someone too early or too late, no matter how early the receiver wakes up or how late they sleep. The only exception to this rule is if it's an emergency.
Time-sensitive messages should be answered as soon as possible, while you have more time for nonurgent ones. But not that long. Gottsman, speaking "from a polite factor" believes you should respond within a day. "That sounds like a very long time for some people but we all have busy lives."
People typically text others after dark when they're looking to hook up. If you want a strictly sexual relationship with this person, go for it! But, if you're looking for something more serious, a late night text might be a red flag.
Since it is text messaging, people cannot read or engage with a text message during standard rush hours, typically between 6:30 a.m. and 8:30 a.m. and 4 p.m. until 7 p.m. local time. Don't send an SMS too early in the morning and not too late at night. A good rule is to compare sending a text to a phone call.
Good Morning / Good Afternoon / Good Evening
For example, “Good morning” is generally used from 5:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. whereas “Good afternoon” time is from 12:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. “Good evening” is often used after 6 p.m. or when the sun goes down.
Mid-afternoon: 2-4 p.m. Late- afternoon: 3-6 p.m. Evening: 6-9 p.m. Late at night: Midnight-6 a.m.
Good evening! You wish 'good night' only while concluding a communication, not while starting one. Even if its 11pm, one must wish 'good evening'. While concluding for the last time in a day, one must say 'good day' or 'good night' depending upon what time of the day it is.
Popularized by the romcom, the three-day dating rule insists that a person wait three full days before contacting a potential suitor. A first-day text or call is too eager, a second-day contact seems planned, but three days is, somehow, the perfect amount of time.
Since there aren't strict rules about when it's too late to text, it totally depends on the girl. If she's a night owl and you know she stays up late, you might feel comfortable texting her around 10 pm, but you probably should text any later than that unless you know her really well.
Don't text anything confidential, private, or potentially embarrassing. Don't be upset if your text doesn't get an immediate response—you can't know for sure when the recipient will read the message. Think of texting as a conversation: If you would respond in the conversation, then respond in the text.
Personal texts and social media messages can be sent any time during the night – if your recipient doesn't want to be notified in the PM, it's up to them to sort the settings out on their devices.
If you're trying to get a date for that same night it will work best if you initiate texting in the mid to late morning. That shows respect. Texting late at night may get you laid, but she may just think of you as a boy toy and is likely to not take you seriously.
Texting rule #2: Do not text him at odd hours, especially late at night. Doing this can be easily misconstrued by him as a booty call request. Instead, text him using the phone call approach so you can text genuinely with the option to both answer and ask questions.
Evening is the time when the sky starts to get dark – usually around 6-8 PM. Night is the time when it is dark and people are generally sleeping.
(Only in the 12-hour clock) The start of the twenty-second hour of the day; 9:00 p.m. (21:00). Supper was served at nine o'clock (= "Supper was served at 9:00 p.m.").
School-age children should go to bed between 8:00 and 9:00 p.m. Teens should try to go to bed between 9:00 and 10:00 p.m. Adults should try to go to sleep between 10:00 and 11:00 p.m.
Good Evening is a greeting. So, even if it is 10 PM, when you greet someone you greet them with "good evening" and when you leave you say "good night".
"Good evening" would be the more normal night-time greeting.
"As a general rule, you shouldn't text somebody after 9 p.m. It may be seen as an intrusion of privacy, or they may feel you're inserting a sense of urgency that doesn't need to be there. As for the morning, if school hasn't started and you wouldn't expect the person to be at work, it's best to wait.
A week gives the person enough time to thoughtfully respond.
Even though it's a little old-fashioned, some people will wait 3 days after a date to text you back to make you miss them more. Waiting any longer than a week could be a sign they're not interested, and it might be best to let the conversation die out.
Post Senning's general rule is to not wait longer than one to three hours to reply, he tells TI. "A text conversation can go stale in a few hours," he says. "Don't just make them wait." If you're crushing on someone, don't play mind games, he says.