Wednesday, 15 October 2008

The creepy winkingness of strangers

Gah!! Have just looked at my profile properly for the first time in ages,normally I just login,accept a friends request from a girl that served me in tescos ten years ago and then head straight to the lovely notes section where I can roll in the delights of my own words, not today-oh no, not today. I happened to notice I have an application called are you interested? , in the top right hand corner it was happily flashing to me that no less than 4 people were indeed interested-curious and curioser.. I waited the prerequisite ten minutes for my computer to understand that a double click does indeed mean it's going to have to do something wondering who it was that could possibly be interested in me and so blatantly declare it. The page loaded and to my excitement I realised that my computer had actually decided to load an entirely different page and I would have to wait a further ten minutes, I made a coffee, drank it and then realised I was going to need to reboot my computer.There is a slight possibility that my frustrations with my computer are hindering the progress of the story and so I will mention no more of the numerous attempts to get back to the page and will just say that 20minutes later I was looking at the array of men that were interested (I use the word array loosely,4 is more of a smattering really,also the word men may be a smidge inaccurate) All of them are currently living in America which is nice(because I'm not)and all of them seemed to have made particular effort with their profile picture, one of them had a photo of a gun (the charmer),another was doing an uncanny impression of Boy Geaorge from the Kalma Chamaeleon video and the thrid guy had rather invenively listed his age as 23, got proffessional photographs taken and succeeded in passing for 43 and being a bit of a tosser(hmm not used the word tosser before, Iwonder where that came from? sounds awfully proper). Brimming with anticaption at the multitude of possibilities that had presented themselves to me I clicked to read what messages they had chosen to send me(being restrained and not one to twitter on about mundane events for no reason I will not utter a word about my computers response to the clicking, vindictive evil machine that it is). When serendipity and coincidence meet the outcome is inevitably a masterpiece, every one of those four fine fellows had inventively chosen to wink at me. Now I know something of computer dating lingo from friends("there are no friends,you're talking about yourself, don't lie" am I psychic?)and I know that winking is simillar to poking in facebook, none the less I found the whole thing rather disconserting, strange and not one bit attractive men winking at me like some floozy about the town, I feel violated, but also strangely compelled to keep an eye on the application so I may monitor the amount of desperate guys out there so low in self esteem that they see a picture of me glaring unattractively at the camera that they think "ooh! she seems nice" and click yes

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