Attempt at socialising

[elusivek]

Please tell me my reaction is that of a normal human being

Or, do the ladies really like that kind of attention?

So, I came to know of a guy. Pretty fun initially. After some time, we added each other on Facebook to be able to message one another. He’s from overseas.

So far so good.

Some messages here and there. Regular stuff. How was work? Doing good?

Then it started to get strange. He gets all clingy and touchy-feely (ok, it’s all online, so not really touchy, but feely).

It starts to get “romantic”, but hey, I hadn’t indicated nor have I encouraged the… I dunno, acquaintanceship to head that way.

Oh how he misses me. Poems and stuff. (WTF?) Oh. And the whole part of “wanting to live with you” thing. Erm, sir, I don’t think it’s appropriate for that.

He says he wants to visit Asia. Sure, go ahead and visit. Then he asks me to find hotel quotes. WTF? Fine, so I just do a basic “expect 3-stars to cost this much, 4-stars this, and 5-stars that.”

A couple of weeks of no response, then he says I should go visit him (TF?). Anyway, after resolutely saying no, the regular exchanges continue, and well, I’m a petty person. He didn’t even thank me for the info. Jerk.

Suddenly he says he loves Macau and wants to live here. TF? WTF? WTBF?? “That’s a brave statement when you haven’t even been here yet,” and the conversation was left hanging.

Then he messaged me in December asking why I didn’t reply and I asked “I wasn’t aware there was a conversation going on”, as he should be the one saying/replying something. Then I added that I was really busy in December. (I mentioned, crazy December) and he replied, and I quote, “My girl is keeping busy.”

Alright, that did it. I flipped. I replied with a simple “I’m nobody’s girl. I’m not property,” and ignored him for another month. Yesterday, New Year’s, he sent a photo of a plushie Pikachu. It was obviously a ploy to get me talking, I was feeling generous with chatting, so I bit. “Cute. Happy New Year. How are you?” and he goes “Finally you reply. First girl in 2017.” Erm… okay I’m being willfully petty – but, he didn’t greet me back and he didn’t ask me how I’m doing, so I find that really rude.

You know what, I don’t get the male species of humankind. I really don’t. And I don’t want to waste my time trying to understand them. So I shall simply start tapering him off by means of selective sharing and slowly exclude him from viewing any of my content. I won’t block him as he will see that I blocked him, then he can create a new Facebook and add me. But anyway, I don’t add people I’ve never met in real life anyway, the few exclusion are a few of you Livejournal friends here, so that shouldn’t be a problem either. But yeah, that’s what I’m going to do. Bye, crazy guy.