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This was routine some 5 years ago. Earlier than that, it was the ‘missed call’ fad where people would ‘miss call’ you to let you know they are alive. People do not send such stuff on sms anymore. They have facebook now 
Anyways, ignore. Claim “mobile signal” no good at work (if) when asked.
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Awwwww no one ignores u! You be our Southie bro!
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you can be part of our secret What’sapp group. We will sms your our selfies everyday
Missed call, lol. That is a new one to me. 
sheesh, we actually do ignore him
Lol yes I remember the missed call era. Good times!
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No, Thank you! This is probably less torturing.
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Your loss 
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Perhaps start borrowing money from them..
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Diwana, can I ask you for some money please
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lol
Sorry, I might have sent you message by mistake, won’t happen again. See? it worked. 
Your threads are serious business, I mean they are real issues and topics. It requires capacity as in time and capability as in some knowledge of the topic to do justice to them, but stay on as a gadfly, it may resonate with many who are readers and others who post but shy away from serious threads but learn.
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TLK: Politely ask to be taken off their mass joke list.
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I probably have to do that, Maybe I should tell him that I am on a limited txt plan, so try to save my texts for real sms
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But but, that could be considered as a lie.
Simply tell those people you are busy and just couldn’t find time enough to respond. You appreciate their friendship and will always try to respond if something important comes up your way. Put an emphasis on ‘important’ to give them signal.
And longer the message better it may be since they may take your message seriously.
With time hopefully they will learn and stop bothering you.
True story and personal experience. I used to get junk mail/texts too and simple ignoring did not work.. from various people.
Are they good friends or acquaintances?
1- If good friends just send a note saying you enjoy the SMS and are reading them but don’t have a witty, funny, original response. They will understand.
2- If acquaintances then just start sending them responses that leave them scratching their heads. Then if you don’t respond, they will not bug you about it.
PS: in scenario number 1, send them to GS to prove your statement.
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Introduce them to Cafe forum.
All thy problems will be solved.
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Actually the one who asked if I am Naraaz is kind of a good friend. But people from Pakistan work at different emotional level. I hate to ignore him, but I have no answers to his spamming,
Reverse spamming, start sending him **** that he has no interest in, baseball stats or cocktail recipes. Then when he does not reply you guys are even.
My SMS mannerism. .
Just tell him yaar I didn’t know I was supposed to reply to chain/joke messages. And then start asking how is he and all
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Didn’t know OP was Naraaz. Thought he was TLK.
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I didnt know it had to be asked if we are to reply to someone asking of our well being?! If its just sharing of quotes, poetry then ofcourse no reply is must but overall i’d say that if someone is trying to make an effort in keeping in touch we should be thankful. Everyone is busy in their life and if someone cares enough to take time out and sms, appreciate it! If you don’t like the person, keep ignoring…poor him wl stop one day.