Poll: Is it tacky or uncool to ask someone out on Facebook or over text?
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It's kinda the height of gutlessness. Yes, we've all been there too scared to tell someone we like them to thier face, but honestly? Sometimes you just gotta grow up, strap-on a pair and step up. Nothing worth having comes easy. Apart from delicious pudding, which requires only currency and a spoon.
Yes, unless it's the only option. Some relationships begin over the internet because the people involved live too far away from each other to meet up in person. And that's fine. But if you can meet in person, asking them out through text just seems cowardly.
As a person in an online relationship i'm all for expressing emotions through text, but Skype let us both see that nothing is more important than actally being able to hear and see the person you like, especially if it's something importan or close to heart you wanna talk about.
So i wouldn't call it tacky or uncool, but i would call it easily ignorable and lacking in emotional interest (from the other person). So if you were thinking about going about asking someone out like that i recommend just doing it in person instead. The sincerity of a direct and personal request could tip the person over
So i wouldn't call it tacky or uncool, but i would call it easily ignorable and lacking in emotional interest (from the other person). So if you were thinking about going about asking someone out like that i recommend just doing it in person instead. The sincerity of a direct and personal request could tip the person over
Depends what you mean, if you're asking her out as in "hey, want to go grab a drink?" than it's more than acceptable to just text her.
However if you're going to confess your feelings for her and want to make a real go at a relationship with her you have to do it in person.
Also for future reference you need to break up with people to their face too.
However if you're going to confess your feelings for her and want to make a real go at a relationship with her you have to do it in person.
Also for future reference you need to break up with people to their face too.
mfw no one has said "no"
It's a terrible first-impression. If you really like the girl, you'll put out your neck a bit and ask her out personally.
Besides, she's more likely to say yes to a personal request, it's quite easy to refuse things on a whim when you're not talking face-to-face.
It's a terrible first-impression. If you really like the girl, you'll put out your neck a bit and ask her out personally.
Besides, she's more likely to say yes to a personal request, it's quite easy to refuse things on a whim when you're not talking face-to-face.
Depends on the situation I think if you met her in a club and got her number then its fine to text. But if you work or know her then best face to face. Maybe its an Irish thing but I don't know anyone who rings people up from a night out normally its all just texting.
If its some one you know just go up to her and ask her out don't be all nervous about it just ask in a calm way if she would like to go out sometime. If theres anything I learnt its about confidence but don't be cocky.
If its some one you know just go up to her and ask her out don't be all nervous about it just ask in a calm way if she would like to go out sometime. If theres anything I learnt its about confidence but don't be cocky.
Asking someone out on a date "hey I want to chat you up some time can we go to the pub this Friday?" or something of that nature is acceptable. Subsequently, that's where it should end. If he/she accepts numbers should be exchanged and the conversation should be continued on the phone.
Asking someone to be your significant other... not acceptable.
Asking someone to be your significant other... not acceptable.
possibly, but that doesn't mean it's not a good idea.
some people might lack the courage to ask somebody they have a crush on face-to-face and having something like facebook where you don't actually have to pyschically go up and talk to them might be just the thing to get a good relationship started.
some people might lack the courage to ask somebody they have a crush on face-to-face and having something like facebook where you don't actually have to pyschically go up and talk to them might be just the thing to get a good relationship started.
I would much rather ask and/or be asked in person. I feel that if someone doesn't have the time of day to ask me face to face about something this significant, then its probably not worth even giving it a go, in my opinion.
My first relation ship started with the girl in question leaving me a note in my locker in high school. How romantic, right? At first I didn't see anything wrong with it. That relationship went downhill. Fast.
I really think that for a relationship to work, there has to be a real connection at the beginning of it, and I don't think that starts with sending a text or message over facebook.
But that's just me.
My first relation ship started with the girl in question leaving me a note in my locker in high school. How romantic, right? At first I didn't see anything wrong with it. That relationship went downhill. Fast.
I really think that for a relationship to work, there has to be a real connection at the beginning of it, and I don't think that starts with sending a text or message over facebook.
But that's just me.
Keep it face to face in my opinion, whenever I hear of people getting together over facebook I always think that it must be really awkward then meeting each other in person and suddenly you're in a relationship - For me it will always remain a face to face thing.
But I feel that admitting to someone that you are interested in them via text or facebook is fine, its almost like a place-holder to say you are going to ask them out in person.
But I feel that admitting to someone that you are interested in them via text or facebook is fine, its almost like a place-holder to say you are going to ask them out in person.
Yeah it's tacky, which is why you should avoid doing it if face to face is available, but I wouldn't give too much of a fuck over whether it's "cool" or not.
At the same merit, however, it really shouldn't matter to either of you how the asking-of-out happens. Saying stuff like "If he doesn't ask me out face to face he's clearly not serious enough for me!" would actually put me off asking someone out at all, by text, facebook or otherwise...If you've got a five year plan before a single date has been had, IMO, you need to slow the fuck down and chill the fuck out.
At the same merit, however, it really shouldn't matter to either of you how the asking-of-out happens. Saying stuff like "If he doesn't ask me out face to face he's clearly not serious enough for me!" would actually put me off asking someone out at all, by text, facebook or otherwise...If you've got a five year plan before a single date has been had, IMO, you need to slow the fuck down and chill the fuck out.
Of course it is, but it's more than that.
It's cowardly, a bit pathetic and shows that you're not really very committed.
I wouldn't do it that way, and i'm deadly afraid of human contact.
It's cowardly, a bit pathetic and shows that you're not really very committed.
I wouldn't do it that way, and i'm deadly afraid of human contact.
