Facebook 'poke' leads to awkward one-nighter
Jack Zabian
Issue date: 4/3/06 Section: Features
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The chain of events that led to the uncomfortable, no-strings-attached sex in Eva Larson '06's Young Orchard dorm room began last Friday. Sitting at her Rockefeller Library carrel, Larson, a modern culture and media concentrator who stayed in Providence over spring break to finish her senior thesis on "Deconstructing the Meta-Narratives of Postmodern Celebrity Weeklies," was procrastinating on Facebook.com.
Larson came upon Gold's profile and "felt an instant attraction" to his picture, in which the San Francisco native is wearing an "artfully frayed" Amoeba Music t-shirt. Larson told The Herald she was "somewhat perplexed" by Gold's interest in "spiritual ecology," though she ultimately overcame this initial reservation.
After seeing that Gold's spring break plans included "forties in the stacks," Larson decided to click the "Poke Him!" link "just as sort of a joke," she said. Gold's reciprocal poke led to a series of events that culminated in Gold discreetly tip-toeing out of Larson's dorm room Sunday morning following blundering sexual intercourse.
Gold, a religious studies concentrator working on his thesis, "Representations of the Ear th Mother in Kabbalah and Rastafarianism: A Comparative Study," told The Herald he received Larson's poke while writing in his Barbour Hall suite. Gold said he clicked "Poke Back" out of "basic Facebook etiquette" and because he thought the brunette - pictured on her profile wearing black eyeliner and low-rise jeans - was "kind of cute, though not really my type."
Larson's original interest was amplified by Gold's reciprocal poke, and she became all the more intrigued after she noticed Gold's membership in "People Whose Conversations Devolve Into Discussions on the Meaning of Life" group. The pair's relationship quickly escalated when Larson decided to click "Send Ethan a Message."
She wrote: "how's the thesis coming? i remember you referencing it in our 'exploding the modern' section last semester. wanna blow off some steam tonight and maybe, like, have some beers in my suite or something?"