Hello, its effort calling...

As I start to plan a wonderful Valentines Day for me and my long time lover; Jose Cuervo, I can’t help but point out what little effort people are putting in when it comes to actually asking a person out lately.
I started a new rule a while ago that I would only go out on a date with a guy if he actually picked up the phone to call me. Nothing is worse then getting a text message asking you out on a date. If you can’t put the effort in to pick up the phone, then why would I put the effort in to go out with you?
Most recently I had given my number to a guy, who in turn kept asking me out over text message for 3 weeks straight. He said he usually wasn’t so persistent but there was something special about me. However, as special as I may be to him, not once did he attempt to have a real conversation with me.
We all spend so much of our day emailing, facebooking, tweeting, instant messaging, text messaging and bbm-ing. I have to ask; when it comes to trying to actually make a connection with someone, why would you want it to be so impersonal?

Below are some of the text messages I’ve got recently;

11:25pm: Hey Rebecca, You free tomorrow night? – Sorry, my phone doesn’t answer male desperation past 10pm.

Hey Rebecca, if you let me take you out, it will be great! – He sure was optimistic!

Have you see Avatar?? I’d like to take you – x4 in the last month. And no, I don’t want to spend 3 hours beside you, in the dark. I've never had a conversation with you.

It’s Tom, we met the other night at Amy’s. Do you want to come to a magic show with me on Thursday? – I mean at least he was original, in a weird pedophile type of way.

And then sometimes I just mess with them...

Hey it’s Alex from the other night, did you want to go out sometime?
Who?
Alex, we met at the pub.
Are you just a bit taller then me, with blonde hair?
No, I’m 6’2” with dark hair.
I don’t remember you, but you sound better looking then the other guy. Send me a picture without your shirt on, holding a puppy?

Oddly enough i didn't hear from Alex again.