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Silence    “Being rude on the internet”

When you ask a question and get no response. That is rude.

I am very excited that this weekend I will get together with friends that I was so close to the first years of college. There will be 6 of us, I think. We are planning a low key weekend at Cedar Point. Casual and relaxed. There is a TGI Fridays in the

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[panoramicgreen]

It sounds like you were friends with the unresponsive woman before the season of ignoring, but I'm on the flip side of a FB silence. A girl with whom I was friends in high school recently FB-messaged me (although we're not friends on FB-- she just sent me a message). It was a long message, apologizing for how she treated me back in HS. She went to some length to say how bad she feels, and how she often thinks about me

Poisoning yourself by being rude, yeah I can see that.

[redbaydreamer]

I am conflicted on this. I agree that it would have been better for her to have said in one of the less personal opportunities something like, "you know I know we were friends once, but I would rather you just left me alone right now." Or just no thanks, but hanging up? I just don't know. Bob has a cousin that I made the mistake of friending on FB and now she keeps sending me stuff. I ignore it and I have her hidden. I suppose at some point I should send her a message and say that I am just not into all that stuff. I was just telling someone the other day that silence is not "no." If "no" is what you mean, then you need to say "no." Silence allows for interpretations, the person didn't get my message, they are just busy, or whatever. If you mean "no" you need to say "no." You would have thought we learned as kids when we couldn't get rid of the strange guy or girl who kept thinking we were their friend because we couldn't be mean to them. You are more persistant then I am. Interesting.