Bless me with a text

Why is it that modern relationships have become based on the tactics of texting and facebooking?

Who should add who first? And once that’s done, who says ‘hi’ first? Will it be you because you added them first, so you must also make the first step in establishing this new line of communication with this ‘unknown’ person? At the same time, how ‘unknown’ can this person be? Once we’ve added them we can creep the shit out of their profile in an attempt to figure out what they’re like, where they study/work, where they recently got stupidly drunk, where they regularly get drunk (so we can coincidently ‘bump’ into them), stalk any girl/guy who has recently posted on their wall or make regular appearances in their tagged photos and by the end find yourself looking through your own profile for the 4^th time in order to check how your profile looks to them. Ridiculous yes, but everyone does it!

Once, a few random wall posts and/or messages have been exchanged, the next step in the relationship can take place if it already hasn’t. The exchange of phone numbers. Ooooh…getting serious! Now, the mind fucking texting may commence!

Who sends the first witty text?! One x or two xx’s? Play hard to get or be available? Text back right away or later and pretend I’m doing something super cool and fun. The worst of all comes when he doesn’t text back (here male since females tend to over think and overreact more in these situations)! What happened? Did my well thought out text not impress him? Is he texting some other bitch? OMG! Why hasn’t he sent any texts today? Has he already forgotten about me? Am I too boring? We then proceed to check their facebook profile to see what our victim has been up to in order to verify facts. The stress involved in this process may be unbearable. I know this from my own experience as well as from watching friends suffering. First, it’s hidden by the ‘I-don’t-care-I’m-too-busy-anyway’ attitude, then the long-lasting debate ‘Should I send another text, maybe the previous one wasn’t reply worthy’, after that the ‘He-is-a-dick-head-but-I-need-that-text-back’ and the ‘should’ve never texted him in the first place’. It shouldn’t be like this! Let’s think about it. How fucking stupid is it to think about one text for any more than 10 minutes, sometimes even a day?!

Ok, so they finally text back. Brilliant. Heart is fluttering and palms sweating in preparation for another reply. This goes on, flirting is on the go and hopefully a meeting is arranged. After that, we wait to see if they text a few minutes after saying bye…because if they do, it means they’re thinking about us! YAY! If not, we go to bed praying they bless us with a text the following day......

Depending on the situation, these technological mind games may go on for a long time. Texting, flirting, occasionally meeting up, facebook creeping to check if they’re really that ‘busy’ or if they’ve made plans with other people and ultimately hoping for 10 x’s and heartwarming messages.  How did people flirt in the early 20^th century?! No facebook creeping?! WEIRD times. Sometimes, I really wish I didn’t have facebook and just didn’t know how to text. Could potentially make love life a lot easier and simpler.


Love,
DQ xx