“I saw you â?¦ looking like a dork. But I donâ??t care how dorky you can be. I just want you to come be dorky with me, babe.” “I saw you â?¦sitting by yourself and I desperately want to talk to you â?¦but Iâ??m too incredibly awkward to actually talk to you AND be successful â?¦but donâ??t worry, Iâ??ll start trying when I get back from Spring Break ;)” This, says Keone Hon, a junior at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is what happens when the romantic impulses of the college student meet the declarative instincts of the social media generation.
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