Posted on 05/23/2024 8:44:31 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
“Is he a bad texter, or is he over 35?”
Elizabeth Castaldi, a popular US creator, has sparked a viral discussion about the generation gap in texting when it comes to dating.
Castaldi, 27, recently went on a date with a 35-year-old man and she was baffled by the text he sent her the next day.
“Hey, had fun last night. Have a good day,” the man texted.
Then, in true Generation Z fashion, Castaldi took that private message, screenshotted it and posted it online, where it has amassed more than 500,000 views.
She added the caption: “I have to start dating people my own age. But I won’t.”
Castaldi’s confusion at the text message firmly divided the comment section.
Some thought she was being accurate and he was texting like a millennial, while others thought she was being unfair and the text she received wasn’t out of the ordinary.
“I’m confused how is this bad?” one person asked.
Castaldi replied that she didn’t have the “ick” by his formal text message, but his millennial texting style made her unable to tell if he wanted to see her again.
“Let’s be clear, I do not have the ick. I just can’t read him and I really, really want to go on a second date,” she wrote.
Someone else replied and said the problem with the 35-year-old’s text is that it was too sterile.
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Women.
a 35 year old texted to a 27 year old that he had a good time last night on their date. and he said have a good day.
she freaked out not knowing how to read him and made a big deal out of it on social media instead of texting back, me too. have a great.
that’s all she had to do to get a second date with the guy, and now she won’t be able to date anyone who reads this.
:)
“Men shouldn’t use emojis.”
i think that should be:
REAL men don’t use emojis! [or eat quiche]
There is no contradiction. I am willing to allow for a lesser man to graduate to being a “real” man, part of that is discarding emojis.
Bummer.
I tried to run a search, even on the Wayback Machine and I came up empty.
The article was from 1-22-2002 (timblair.blogspot.com), but I could only find 1-19-2002 at the Wayback Machine - but then a big gap until March...
I'd print the whole routine here - but I only know how to convert Word Text (which is how I copied it back in 2002) to html by brute force (adding in the various html commands on each sentence), and that would take too long.
Oh well, it was actually a pretty funny routine, but not worth the time to dig out or convert.
If you want to try digging, look for 1-22-2002 timblair.blogspot.com. Other key phrases would be Richard Reid, Shoeboy. But just to get a few chuckles, not really worth the effort.
Bae. Urban dictionary
AAVE (African-American Vernacular English) pronunciation of “babe,” used as a term of endearment toward loved ones
Ghetto and hip hop.
Okay, bae🤭
Nobody else knows what went on between them, so none of us can say whether it was a brush-off or not. “Have a nice day” does sound like a brush-off, but maybe he was like Joe Montana’s SNL character who always said exactly what he is thinking, no more and no less.
Can’t even come close to understanding what or who’s the ‘problem’ here. Completely nonplussed.
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