| LOL, I get your point, corranged. I guess it's just a different perspective. Perhaps the real question for me is, Why in the world would a (mostly) adolescent social networking site ask about engagement in the first place?
While it's possible, most people today do not get engaged until after college, and in any case it's no longer true that straight females, for example, attend college "in order to" get "their MRS. degree." (Used to be true, a couple of generations ago.)
I didn't think the purpose of FB was to be a dating site, or announce an interest in dating one or another gender. It's not that it couldn't be announced by the poster as an option under "Profile". (Favorite things: guys, particular authors, particular foods & pastimes, etc.) So I support the elusive responses (& would probably do the same!). I don't know that I'd call that evasion "fun," particularly after you see it a few times, but whatever. (I'd probably have responded at that age with something like "Not saying," or "wouldn't you like to know?" or just, "?" Because there certainly have been stalkers on MySpace, I can see the wisdom in being noncommital. |