Sean's AM Journal

[Shannon]

I tried asking the girl from NYE out over facebook, and she didn't reply to my message, though I know she read it. The awesome part about this is that it only annoys me that she didn't reply: I don't care that we're not going out, and I don't feel "rejected" or that this reflects negatively on me at all.

It annoys me sometimes that the Internet and cell phones and IM and texting has made the concept of social grace and politeness with regard to communicating a complete mystery to most people, but in a situation like yours, it would be instant disqual, and I wouldn't bat an eye over it. Facebook is a place I have come to expect poor behavior from people with regards to the politeness of social grace. I would suggest talking on the phone or in person to asking someone out over FB, unless I had already established a conversation with them first.