Advice on messaging back quickly?

Hi first time posting here.So tend to have my phone with me everywhere. I thoroughly enjoy chatting and talking to people, especially other gay guys, because I'm not out.I have the tendency to respond to messages fairly quickly.And in return I get nothing back, really late messages, and ignored read messages.Is it deemed thirsty or desperate to respond in a timely manner or If unavailable letting someone know?It hurts to never get responses, when you seem to get along with someome too.It makes me want to purposefully not answer for a long time, and idk if that's the right thing to do.Any advice?