Confused

[Syvelocin]

I'm not the kind of teen who is too into love and looking for every possibility to fill that place, but here I just need opinions on something that happened today.

Russell, a friend of mine from middle school who I haven't seen in two years, has started chatting with me on Facebook for no reason at all seemingly. We had been facebook friends since I made my account, but now I think he's IMed me three times in the last week, and a few more times within the past month, before hand he hadn't even liked one of my statuses. Again, he hasn't spoken to me for years, so it was unexpected. He justs says hi and asks how I am, then we have discussions, usually talking more about me than him. Today though, he IMed me again, and we were talking. Then out of the blue he asks me to look up someone on Facebook, I do, and ask him why. He said he wanted to get my opinion about going out with her.

I was kinda bothered by it, but I looked her up and everything and such. I said she's alright and everything, but I don't know her personally so I couldn't get that opinion on her. He asked if it was cool or not, and acted a lot like my opinion of her mattered.

I know it might not be something, but why would he need my opinion on her? We were barely close in middle school to begin with, and even less so now, like I said, I haven't spoken to him in two years.

I might be blinded by the fact that I liked him in middle school, but it so happens that the first time he started IMing me on Facebook came soon after I broke up with Dylan last month, my boyfriend of two years. Without that piece of the puzzle, I wouldn't think much of it. But starting to talk to me again right after I broke up with him...

*sigh* Just tell me I'm overexaggerating it and dismiss me as a hopeless romantic, please?

[Daniel_]

He was trying to make you jealous maybe? Ask him about it.

[kyle95]

FB allows him a comfort zone. He's older and obviously he has a lot more confidence. He may be trying to see what you may say about another girl, it's an old game blokes play to see if a girl truly like them. I must say that it's not an honourable one to be playing. Girls are usually more mature and the road this bloke is taking can only lead to more head games. He needs to mature, ditch the games and say what's on his mind. You sound like a very straight forward girl. Don't fall for these immature games. Tell him, "I can see you have many friends on you page who may give you advice, I'd very much like to stay out of it". Hold your ground and let him know you're not playing. Good luck :)