The Electronic "Fuck You"

What is it with people? What is with common courtesy with people? What am I ranting about this time?

Has it ever happened to you that you communicate with someone via email or even phone or, God Forbid, on Facebook, and they initially answer you back very cordially, but they never return your emails thereafter?

Like “Hey, Mikey, it’s really great to find you! What have you been up to? I’ve been up to blah blah blah.”

“Hey Nick, great to hear from you! Well, since I last saw you blah blah blah.”

“No kidding! Did XXX ever move to Australia? He was threatening to.”

Silence. No more contact, ever.

Or you contact someone on craigslist about some job and they initially reply very politely, then after your third email or phone conversation, disappear — forever.

Or even the worst-case scenario: someone you’ve been emailing for years and have met many times socially and all of a sudden they stop all contact. You know it’s for no particular reason, you didn’t get drunk at their house and make a pass at their teenage daughter, yet, everything stops, despite repeated casual emails to try to reconnect, as in “Hey, dude, what’s been up? Long time no hear.”

Silence.

I am of the firm conviction that these people need psychiatric help, because their Asperger’s Syndrome is still a work in progress.