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Ask Me Out To Dinner, Not For My SnapChat

Take me back in time where guys actually wanted to take a girl out to dinner rather than sending pictures of his face.

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Ask Me Out To Dinner, Not For My SnapChat

I love reading. From novels about the Salem witch trials to "Fantastic Mr. Fox" and every classic Nicholas Sparks book.

The one thing I find that I love most about the many romance novels I read, is that the guy actually asks the girl out. He doesn't ask for her SnapChat or her Instagram. He actually asks her out to dinner.

Social media runs our lives these days, and I can't stand it. I understand that it has brought us a long way in being able to interact with other people, even some who live not the other side of the earth! However, when it comes to dating, I think social media should be kept out of it.

In the classic romance stories, the girl doesn't go onto twitter to "subtweet" about the guy when he did something wrong, nor does the guy just put the heart-eye emoji on her Instagram selfies.

If a guy wants to get my attention, then all he has to do is walk up and ask me out. I get it's a lot more nerve-wracking to ask someone in person rather than through a phone screen, but who doesn't love someone with the courage to do it in person?

This isn't to say that if a cute guy asks me for my SnapChat or Instagram I'm going to say no. Who in their right mind would do that?

I think that if someone asks you out, regardless if it's in person or over social media, and you want to go, then that's just fine! You shouldn't say "no" to someone you like just because they used social media.

I may sound high-maintenance, but if you think way back to those days where men were forced to court women for a couple months and then ask them for their hand in marriage, all in person, it's manageable for a guy to do that now.

After all, guys, if you don't have the guts to ask her out on a date in person, what makes you think you'll survive sitting right next to her?

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