As a man known to occasionally pursue some of the darker corners of the internet, I can tell you it’s a real minefield out there; all weird conspiracy theories and people dubiously claiming to be Nigerian royalty. However, every so often a real gem bursts forth from the mire. An idea born out of the natural human desire to give a platform to nutjobs and get a chance to remark on whatever weird stuff they come out with. W
e had Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo answers, Tumblr and now we have HeTexted.com.
Now, I simply cannot decide whether this website is the best or the worst thing on the internet. For that reason this article is going to take a certain schizophrenic tone. HeTexted is basically a website where exasperated/mental women send in texts from potential suitors and ask the age old question “is he or is he not into me?” There is then the opportunity for any person who happens to stumble across the website to vote yes or no, as well as a comments page in which a wealth of advice from what appears to be either a series of flamboyant, homosexual men or sassy, middle aged women is available, exclaiming things along the lines of “girl, you need to ditch that scrub asap.”
My key point is I don’t actually have the slightest clue as to what the website is trying to achieve. Is it a place to go to have a quick laugh at amusing, but most likely fictional, situations? Is it a venting outlet for insane bunny boilers? Or is it a genuine dating advice site? I suppose the answer is probably a little bit of each.
As with so many things online, this website is, in theory, a good and potentially useful idea. I for one regularly obsess over the subtle inferences or messages behind texts from women. In fact, I think the fact the website is called HeTexted is nothing if not downright sexist! But I digress; the website has an opportunity to sort situations by most commented, from this an emerging pattern becomes clear. The ones at the top are hysterical and almost definitely made up and the ones at the bottom are boring and actually true. As a man, I clearly preferred the former and got bored and stopped reading after only a few of the ones not written as jokes or by lunatics.
On a serious note, would you really want to essentially invite a load of strangers to speculate on your love life? Is the information to be gleamed from such a site actually of any merit? Again the answer is, probably both yes and no. The users of the site, as far as I can see, seem to have some valid points to make, but the internet as we know is to be treated in the same way as a medieval king treated foreign mercenaries – as incredibly useful but never to be completely trusted.
If you’re really desperate to know what that guy you’ve got a soft spot for means in a text (and you literally haven’t got any friends to talk to about it to) maybe try out HeTexted.com. But to be honest I would more recommend the site to anyone looking for a cheap laugh on a slow Wednesday afternoon. On a different, side note, I’ve also devised an alternative site which I’m going to set up, called ‘SheTexted.com’. Here men get to speculate on whether their other halves are angry at them when they send texts like: “No it’s fine Tom, you go to D-Bar with your friends, I’m SO over it.”