Why do people text with just the word hello ? Lol I know time waster ... but hello and then nothing until prompted and then one word replies ?  

But I'll get an initial text "hello" from the ladies and my guess is that she's checking to see if I'm there and alone. It's her way of saying, "can you talk". It's short and simple and not drawn out, after all she doesn't know who can see my phone....and a "Hello" would be easier to explain then a " Hey babe, you still coming over tonight to fuck me".....yikes!!!
So I guess you can use this same logic with men...wow, I answered the question.

Providers send me these types of text just to make sure that my significant is not there to intercept the text or to make sure that it is safe to call or communicate with me.  Clients do the same with providers.

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Ripmany.

You would call your provider, or vice versa, and just say, "Are you busy."  If they say yes you hang up. "Busy" could mean any number of things, including your provider having another customer present, or your SO being present. Texting "Hello" is the modern version. It's innocent and doesn't give anything away. You don't say anything further unless and until they respond.  

what is the deal with that guy? does he even speak English?  Just read some unintelligible post about a ride at the mental hospital?

Just a troll.

longer it to see a hooker that a cop longer before you do time in jail.

@Roxy,
It lends me to believe indeed some of those whom do so are timewasters,  
rather than experienced Hobbyists.    
Unfortunately, I tend to find it a bit rude, so often, I just ignore them.  
If I do respond, indeed, generally they are those whom are unreferenced,
and/or negotiators.

They just want to check in and let you know they still care.

+10 @MrFisher

And usually never hear back from them. Proves they are just a Timewaster.  Otherwise they would see they need to be screened and send me that info.

it depends on what happens after you respond to the hello.  If the hello is just to find out if you're not busy, or out to lunch with your mom, or something else that could prove embarrassing for you if he blurted out the whole message from the get go, then I think the discretion and respect he is showing should be appreciated.  You will know by what happens next if he is a timewaster once you respond.

I not only do this all the time myself, but have MANY hookers, SB's and random civvy chicks open up a conversation to me the EXACT same way.

I treat those who text Hello, the same as the ones who text "Are you available?". Who are you? If you are so worried about discretion why not just email me. This is the reason why I took my phone number off of my ads. So very annoying. Especially when I've never seen you before. If someone could reply to me and explain what these guys are expecting me to say in response to this that would be great. Because when I did respond and try to direct them to the proper conversation they ended up asking me ridiculous questions, Where is your incall? I didn't have an incall back then and it was listed on my website and ads. How much? How crass of a question is that? "I have $200 can you come to me? dude... NO!!!!!!! Do you offer XYZ? um did you even read my site?

“Happy Tuesday! Let me know if you need some help getting into trouble next Thursday or Friday, I have a few slick ideas up my sleeve" Would that work?

The one worded emails go to my spam folder automatically

What so fucking hard about that?

I do not text any service providing business with a hello and just a hello. Plain and simple, it is common sense.  

but I think many of you girls are getting all bent out of shape over something that the majority of you do as well.

++100 !  EOM

It's first cousin to the 'I'm bored' text. (Which completely deserves the appropriate rejoinder - 'Well, if you're bored, then you must be BOR-ing!!!''

Lots of people have their phone set to show incoming messages on the lock screen, so to be safe I assume everyone does, and usually open with something ambiguous.  Then get to the point when they respond so I know they're there.  I don't think I'm the only person who thinks that way.

And a lot of our clients are sneaking.  We aren't like a gardener (although that's a hilarious mental picture...), we're elicit girlfriends.

...

A fair amount of my clients are double my age or so and are new to texting or do so very infrequently. Even though they understand how to text in a technical sense, it is still strange for them and most will open cautiously and with ambiguity for my benefit as much as theirs. Also, some of them are just treating the textual dialogue as though it were a phone conversation, which opens with a Hello.

Over sensitive hookers? What is this phenomenon you speak of?

I meant "uber" sensitive hookers.  

gardeners.  You spend some of your time trimming the hedge, don't you?

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when I'm texting someone new, I'm always a bit terrified I'm going to typo their number.  Hasn't happened yet, but I can only imagine the horror of texting my typical "Hey, saw your ad, I'd love to see you for 1hr OC tonight if possible" to the wrong number.  

Including with my mother.

W/email, I can set a side a particular time of day to devote to correspondence, so I'm not being constantly pinged (none of my emails are so urgent that I need to respond within 5 seconds or even 5 hours. 5 days would be pushing it, but everybody would survive).  

Having spent so much of our young adulthood glued to a little white screen, we are now starting to try to break the cycle...

Well I can tell you, I do things very differently.

I guess I shouldn't say just men do it. I mainly see male clients which is why I wrote that. I don't mind people writing "Hi" or "Hello" when we've already met and know each other. I also don't mind when they are first introducing themselves to me or if they want to check if the cost is clear.