Whenever I'm on a messaging app and don't want to talk with anyone I'll pretend I'm unavailable. Even to my significant other.
Is there a reason you pretend to be unavailable?
I seem to get more messages when I pretend to be unavailable and I like the attention.
Liking attention is fine but that is a really odd way to get it. It probably works for now but eventually people are going to start messaging you less and less. Intentionally giving them the impression you aren't available is going to lead to them just thinking you actually are unavailable and they'll stop talking to you because of it.
I hide my messenger open on a tab, but close it and when someone messages me I reply with a bad connection. Then they start to message me again and I reply, oh I'm in a bad area.
Why would you want to lie to people like that, though? What do you gain by being deceitful? It's just not worth it, even for the attention.