Omfg, why don't people use multiple lines to formulate their statement?

I have to hear 10 pings before they are even midway through what they are saying.

Edit: to clarify - it's not the pings (or any anger or annoyance toward those generally, it's the purposeless emptiness of them, looking at then individually), it's the short messages that I read and then have to wait for the next several to even get the picture (and in between returning to whatever I was working on before, several times).