Time for me to get the hint?

Can any facebook or tech-savvy people help me here?

I had deleted my facebook and then made a new account a while later.

I didnt re-add everyone again as I couldn't be bothered; some people re-added me but not all.

Anyway, there is a guy who things have been complicated with... we used to talk daily, and hed always reply to messages the same day; albeit a few hours later, and me the same.

Anyway 2 years later, he will often take 3-4 days to reply to a message, even if it isnt extremely long.

I didnt re-add him but he saw my 'contact request' on Messenger.

Anyway, once he hadn't replied for 4 days which I found strange for him. He told me 'sorry, I didn't see your message'.

This would happen every now and again but he'd often reply fairly quickly so I didn't think anything of it.

Anyway, he said that he 'didn't receive a notification' when I messaged him, as we weren't friends on messenger. So sometimes he 'didn't see the message.'

Anyway, this became more and more frequent, and he'd continue with the 'sorry I didn't see the message' line.

One morning, I just decided to ask him outright if he wanted me to stop messaging him, and that i'd understood if he didnt want to speak any more.

He replied 'Thanks for waking me up on my only morning off."

So I asked him how he could have seen my message if he didn't receive notifications?! Then he came out with some story of "My phone vibrates anyway" and "I receive the red '1' but I dont click on it as I think it's a virus.

I asked another friend who I only have on Messenger if this happened to her, and she told me that she always received notifications and saw my messages.

I've looked on the settings etc. on Facbook and I can't see anything... does it sound like he's lying to me about this or could there be any truth in it? I don't know why he just stops talking or tells me to stop messaging him etc. rather than lying every time...

thanks, I think he has an iphone but not sure... but yeah probably just hoping i'll get the hint.. dont see why he doesn;t just stop replying/ask me to stop like I said But I will now...

He’s given you enough hints.
You didn’t have a proper relationship. Facebook friendship isn’t real
Let it go and find someone real

We have been friends for 2 years and I saw him a fortnight ago.. we did have a 'real' friendship; it's just that I don't get why he just tells me rather than making stupid excuses; it's childish..

So I asked him how he could have seen my message if he didn't receive notifications?! Then he came out with some story of "My phone vibrates anyway" and "I receive the red '1' but I don't click on it as I think it's a virus."