Lately I’ve found Facebook becoming the AOL (America Online). I’ll go into more detail about Facebook/AOL in another video post.

For today, I’d like to discuss one element of the making of new online acquaintances or potential dates through this medium: honesty vs. forthrightness.

Being that I am out about my positive status everyone that I can bloody think of, when I receive a message from someone I do not know, I have to think of the age-old question, “Does he know?”

For a variety of reasons I don’t post a Facebook banner disclosing my status, as I haven’t seen this as a date-getting venue. You could still connect the dots if you dug around a bit and followed some links.

When the occasion arises where a potential date is about to happen, I feel I have no other option to cut to the chase. I rather deal with a minor headache of never hearing back from someone “post-instant messenger” disclosure, than a real live migraine as I watch someone squirm in front of my eyes as they try to get out of this one.

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