Should I ask Agnes out on a date?

Spiritual_Chaos said:

HesCalledDyer said:

The dating game has become something that has surpassed my methods. Nowadays, you have to have facebook, instragram, snapchat, etc and hunt the person down on those platforms and send dumb messages back & forth for weeks, if not months before even considering hanging out in person.  I remember when that used to be called stalking.  Now it's the norm.  And face to face interaction or introducing yourself/asking out in person is considered "creepy."  Do things the old-fashioned way and you get laughed at to your face. What the fuck?

Why are you building up this narrative completely removed from reality?

People are texting in 2018.

We have "talked" regurarly on messanger since 2014... like with most other friends (male and female) I have. It is not something strange or not normal. This can not be a unique concept to all of you, flower-buying-grandpas. Or is the US so far behind in the broadband infrastructure that you still sit by your landline waiting for calls... and can't wrap your head around people chatting? :P 

HesCalledDyer said:

bbiggs said:

Do people ask for phone numbers these days? Or is that an antiquated practice? Do they just hit each other up on FB or IG and bypass the whole “I’m going to ask for her number” thing? 

Funny you ask that.  My one buddy (who also happens to be a die hard Cubs fan) got married last year. His wife has two sons, one started college this year, the other is a junior or senior in high school.  Last year when it was prom time, the younger one was trying to figure out plans with his girlfriend and Ed said to him "Why don't you just call her?"  His response: "I can't.  I don't have her number."

They talk exclusively on snapchat.

Spiritual_Chaos said:

SD48277 said:

Back to the original topic: has she responded?

No. So, not head over heels crazy about the idea --  haha. 

A polite no I guess will come, or nothing at all.

But whatever I guess. Boo! Now Im off work!

HesCalledDyer said:

The dating game has become something that has surpassed my methods. Nowadays, you have to have facebook, instragram, snapchat, etc and hunt the person down on those platforms and send dumb messages back & forth for weeks, if not months before even considering hanging out in person.  I remember when that used to be called stalking.  Now it's the norm.  And face to face interaction or introducing yourself/asking out in person is considered "creepy."  Do things the old-fashioned way and you get laughed at to your face. What the fuck?

Thank God I’m out of the dating game. This sounds awful. 

njnancy said:

..bbiggs said:

HesCalledDyer said:

The dating game has become something that has surpassed my methods. Nowadays, you have to have facebook, instragram, snapchat, etc and hunt the person down on those platforms and send dumb messages back & forth for weeks, if not months before even considering hanging out in person.  I remember when that used to be called stalking.  Now it's the norm.  And face to face interaction or introducing yourself/asking out in person is considered "creepy."  Do things the old-fashioned way and you get laughed at to your face. What the fuck?

Thank God I’m out of the dating game. This sounds awful. 

This thread is only cementing my beliefs that I will never again be in the dating game. Potentially romantic relationships should be a bit more 'sacred' than a text - and I don't think that someone is a flower carrying grandpa because they believe in face to face communications. Mcgruff is younger than me and I'm a contemporary of the band - are they flower carrying grandpas? If so - that's what I would prefer. 

Are we going to start calling people old if they think that speaking to people or using their actual identifying information to communicate is a good thing? I'm not gonna start snapchatting people, I'd feel ridiculous doing so, and if that means I never have a date again, well I can buy myself flowers and my son will have children some day, in the future. Many years in the future. I guess if we could have phone sex back in the day, people could have snapchat sex nowadays. I remember sex, I think.    

If you ask for advice - please be nice to the people who are giving it to you. Especially the women, even if we are decrepit phone number, face to face flower  lovers.

Spiritual_Chaos said:

mcgruff10 said:

Spiritual_Chaos said:

SD48277 said:

Back to the original topic: has she responded?

No. So, not head over heels crazy about the idea --  haha. 

A polite no I guess will come, or nothing at all.

But whatever I guess. Boo! Now Im off work!

At least you know. Now on to the next!

Still worth celebrating friday by stealing beer from the "CEO fridge" 

Spiritual_Chaos said:

njnancy said:

..bbiggs said:

HesCalledDyer said:

The dating game has become something that has surpassed my methods. Nowadays, you have to have facebook, instragram, snapchat, etc and hunt the person down on those platforms and send dumb messages back & forth for weeks, if not months before even considering hanging out in person.  I remember when that used to be called stalking.  Now it's the norm.  And face to face interaction or introducing yourself/asking out in person is considered "creepy."  Do things the old-fashioned way and you get laughed at to your face. What the fuck?

Thank God I’m out of the dating game. This sounds awful. 

This thread is only cementing my beliefs that I will never again be in the dating game. Potentially romantic relationships should be a bit more 'sacred' than a text - and I don't think that someone is a flower carrying grandpa because they believe in face to face communications. Mcgruff is younger than me and I'm a contemporary of the band - are they flower carrying grandpas? If so - that's what I would prefer. 

Are we going to start calling people old if they think that speaking to people or using their actual identifying information to communicate is a good thing? I'm not gonna start snapchatting people, I'd feel ridiculous doing so, and if that means I never have a date again, well I can buy myself flowers and my son will have children some day, in the future. Many years in the future. I guess if we could have phone sex back in the day, people could have snapchat sex nowadays. I remember sex, I think.    

If you ask for advice - please be nice to the people who are giving it to you. Especially the women, even if we are decrepit phone number, face to face flower  lovers.

With your rules an app like Tinder would never work, because you communicate through the means of written text to eachother. before deciding to meat up.

And by your rules blinddating would never work, because the date is set up without this face to face communication that is vital.

There is not anything more sacred in going to someones front door and ask their father if one could take their daughter to the movies and be home by 11, compared to asking someone you know well by the means of a message on messanger if she would like to go on a date on halloween.

And I don't know if you missed this - but the date would still be face to face communication, just like it has been hanging out with her as a friend - we will not talk to eachother through World of Warcraft. 

And so, teens today don't sit and talk on the phone - instead they send eachother pictures and videos through out the day on snapchat. Which means they have more communications with eachother than you guys did in the 1900s with your telegrams. A picture says more than a thousand telegrams sent by t he place next to the saloon.  

There is nothing weird with talking to someone using text. And there is nothing wrong with asking out someone using text.