How do I respond? Should I respond? This is kinda making me look like a jerk, but let me explain my history with this guy. There is no history. We had one class together, I knew his name and would say hello if we happened to make eye contact, but other than that, nothing. I have no idea why he would think I have his number in the first place, which I don't.
Does that sound understandable or still jerkish? If you don't know me, know that I am pretty much socially inept, well that's not true... actually yeah it is... a little bit. Not only that, but this whole social networking thing is still a new media to me. Is this message a legitimate outreach to reconnect with an old classmate, or is it one of those "gotta" statements? You know the "gotta" statements, those things that you say you gotta do with someone you haven't seen in a while, but you both know full well that you are never going to do it, "We gotta go have lunch sometime"; "Sky-diving looks so much fun, we gotta do that!"; "Dude, we gotta get together and start a band.". However, for all I know, people really mean gotta statements and somehow down the road I learned that people just say that to be nice.
Luke, that's a quandary to ponder with your therapist later, not the faceless masses of the internet. Anyway, I apologize for not even mentioning ethos, pathos, or logos. Before this blog was made into an assignment I did a lot of useless stuff like this, but then I realized I have a journal for that, so from now on I'll try to put some of that analytical /critical thinking/non-lazy-writing stuff in here.
P.S. in your word processor, or maybe it's just on the blogger typing program, type "l /" and "o /" only without the "" and no space between them. Just something I thought was entertaining. Simple mind... you know the rest.
P.P.S. I like to post pictures simply because a large block of text looks rather tiring without pictures. This is a waterfall literally just down the road from where I live (in a shack in some state park) it is so much bigger this year with all the water we've been getting.
I understand you completely Luke! I don't believe you are being rude if you don't really know the guy and you don't have his number. If you still wanted to do something, you could just write him back a short facebook message. Very legitimate questions, and interesting analysis. Great post!
ReplyDeleteI'm with Alema. I don't think you're being rude at all. If it were me I would probably not even respond to his FB message.... how's that for rude!?! If you do feel like catching up with him I think it is perfectly fine to send him a message telling him you don't have his number. You could mess with him by telling him to text you, knowing full well he doesn't have your number either (you probably think I'm a total jerk, but that would give you some free entertainment).
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ReplyDeleteAH! so that's what that little trash can symbol does....anyway.
ReplyDeleteI don't ever use Facebook; I finally got an account just so people would stop asking me to get one. Now they post on my account asking why I’m not on, pointless in my opinion. I don’t like having my face in this book but it’s great for birthday reminders. It seems ridiculous that people would ignore phone calls and texts but they are quick to respond on Facebook. I guess I like the good old days when people would actually visit each other and not just send a text or Facebook message as a means to “catch up.”