Telling an old friend you're not interested over Facebook?

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Sorry it's kinda of long, Also sorry for the bad grammar & run on sentences. I'm writing this on my phone, bare with me.

Ok say there's this guy we went to school together in middle school. We really weren't close but we we're cool... Ok so after middle school I moved to a different city , we completely lost all contact. Fast forward 5 years later, I move back to my old city He friends request me on Facebook, he claims to have saw me around in the city. We do the the whole hey, hi, how have you been conversation, he then told me I looked really good and asked me if I was single & if he could take me out. I just ignored it, I'm just awkward like that. That was a couple weeks ago,This last past Saturday he messages me again saying:

Him: Hey
Me: Hi
Him: What are you doing?
*After two hours & no response*
Him:over the two week break from school, what are you doing pretty lady??
*30 minutes later*
Him: Hey my birthdays coming up up this week, we have to kick it
The next day
Him: Whats good?
i'm now seeing that ignoring him is not going to work... I'm really bad with wording things and he's a really nice guy, so I want to basically just tell him I'm not interested nicely & without making it awkward, because we have allot of mutual friends and might actually be around at events.

PS.
@ MD.. Honestly on top of him not being my type at all... I just so in love with being single right now that i'm just not interested in even going out on dates to even lead someone on like that...

[jarsajar]

So as awkward and uncomfortable as it may be, your best bet is to be explicit. Guys are not mind-readers and most of the time it is better to be direct in what you want out of the friendship/relationship.

You don't necessarily have to be a jerk and say "I am not interested in you. Go away, creeper!" But just say maturely I think it's in our best interest to "just be friends" and let him know that "You've been busy with other work/school/friend/life whatever obligations and can't make the time to hang out." If he is a decent human being he should get the hint. If not, just block him.

[trader1867]

just tell him and dont ever ignore someone (unless you have told them and they did not take the hint) if nothing else its rude ----- maybe he thinks you are playing hard to get

[Fiend Here]

Ignoring him is kinda rude even if you're not interested.

Since he is pretty open about his intentions, why don't you do the same ? Just say hey thanks but i'm busy with blah blah whatever. OR just say you have a boyfriend.

Avoiding him won't solve the problem. Besides, he seems to be a persistent guy who won't take a hint.

Good luck :-)

[Hydrabadchik]

YOu could block him on FB. If he asks you could say that you needed to reduce the amount of time on FB because it was starting to be a problem.

As long as you're polite to him and smile in person - he's being treated well. You don't owe him fb time.

No need to tell him anything more, really.

[Md]

why aren,t you interested