According to Dictionary.com;
flirt
[flurt] –verb (used without object)
| 1. | to court triflingly or act amorously without serious intentions; play at love; coquet. |
| 2. | to trifle or toy, as with an idea: She flirted with the notion of buying a sports car. |
| 3. | to move with a jerk or jerks; dart about: butterflies flirting from flower to flower. |
Flirting is stupid, I’ve recently decided. It’s an unreliable measure of someone’s interest in you.
Tonight I realized that I have been flirting a lot, and I don’t want to flirt anymore.
I pointed out to Austin that two people exchange winking smilies, it is a flirtatious act. A one sided winking smiley isn’t so bad, but when it is reciprocated.. that is when things get kind of sketch and babies are made.
So in conclusion, I am no longer exchanging winking smilies with boys (including Austin!!), and I am going to try harder to be more obvious about my intentions. This kind of stuff can really screw with someone.. and I would like to not be a facilitator of that kind of thing.