Chapter One: Women and Their Ways

We women, it must be said, are a lot like cats. Graceful, demure, and born with the innate ability to get what we want without showing how badly we want it. And we would never let on that we even *tried* to get it. To do so would be clumsy and well, just not done.

This applies to men.

That is, the getting the attention of, sustaining interest, and ultimately, the getting of.

In this fragment of history dominated by Facebook, let me start by listing three things we women can do to get the attention of men on the world's biggest social network.

1. "Like" every status update, every photo, every comment, check-in, (well, within reason or he'll think you're bonkers), every video, every link he posts. If he is the type who posts often on Facebook, then like every *other* post, or he'll think you like him and we don't want him to, well, smell a rat.


2. Post updates and links of your own that you think will get his interest. Make sure you post thought-provoking content, or mysterious things. 


If he is a believer, post Scripture. It never fails to get the thumbs up. It also gives the impression you just finished reading the Bible.


3. Better yet, tag him in a post, a photo, or a comment. This ensures you get a direct response if you feel he is not responding.


WhatsApp and Email

Why not start texting or emailing? It's more private and men will always respond to email, because they think they have to, or appear impolite.

Of course, some men will be more guarded and will refrain from responding too quickly but be intentionally slow in answering messages. I had an overseas friend who took at least a month to respond to my fluffy emails. He knew that answering my mail would only encourage me.


Men don't realize that it's ok to take a whole day or two to respond to a Whatsapp message if it's of the 'Hi-how-are-you? How-was-your-day?" variety. Of course, you can create an urgent situation, so he will feel prompted to respond.


What he doesn't realize is that if you were really in hot soup, you would call your mom, or your best friend.  First.