Monday, September 13, 2010

RSVP Kisses Messages and Replies

This may seem a bit arrogant as I've been on RSVP around 10 minutes (Actually I was on in the 90's but does that really count? I'm sooo much wiser now.) but maybe I'm just a square peg in a round hole wherever I dip my toes.

Anyway I'm a bit frustrated by the limited choice of canned messages for RSVP Kisses. This is the only free form of casual messaging available on RSVP. Else you fork out $10 for a stamp so you can email someone for a month. So you can see that Kisses are pretty important and likely to be your medium of communication with almost everyone except a choice few.

So why are the choices so few and why do they, for the most part, just miss what you actually want to say? (Yes yes I know it's a business and they want you to buy stamps, blah blah. Look it's my blog and I'll cry if I want to.)

I'll add examples and ideas here as we go along, but here are some early ones:

You get contacted,
KISS Hi I'm interested, could you please add your photo?
You think they're a good sort so you want to say,
Thanks for the kiss, I'm trying not to look like a sneaker creep and add my photo asap, but the RSVP nazis are taking three days to approve it.
In fact nearest available message is,
I'm buying some stamps. Expect my email soon.
which is pretty lame when they can see you obviously have stamps because you are an RSViP member.

You try your hand at sending a Kiss, bolstering your shaky nerves in so doing. You want to say,
KISS, Hi there. I like your profile, shall we try some emails?
The closest available is,
Your profile caught my eye so I thought I'd be brave and say hi!
which is fine albeit a bit wussy.
The reply comes back,
I'm flattered by the attention and appreciate the kiss, but I don't want to take things further right now. I wish you all the best in your search.
which is quite nice (see my post "Rejection"), but the problem now is I want to say, something like
Hey, that's cool, best of luck to you too.
but in fact there is no way to reply to her message reply, so now I feel like I want her to know it's OK so I also don't feel bad but I can't. Some people may think this trivial but signing off is a key aspect of communication between people.



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