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Don鈥檛 get me wrong, I鈥檓 all for avoiding awkward conversations whenever possible.

I always email instead of call. I鈥檝e eaten food that was prepared incorrectly just because I didn鈥檛 want to confront a waiter about it. I鈥檝e been cut in line so many times and instead of doing something about it I just stand there and seethe silently.

Sometimes, though, you really need to just bite the bullet and tell someone you might have given them a sexually transmitted infection.

I should make it clear, this isn鈥檛 something I know about from personal experience, but there is a reason I鈥檓 bringing this up.

Let鈥檚 rewind.

This week, I read about how there鈥檚 significant increases in reported cases of STD鈥檚 in Snohomish County. From 2011 to 2016 reports of chlamydia, syphilis, and gonorrhea are up 40 percent, 112 percent and 243 percent respectively.

For context, this isn鈥檛 like a 15 to 21 type of 40 percent increase. In 2011 there were 1,762 cases of chlamydia in Snohomish County, in 2016, there were 2,475.

Q13 spoke to NeighborCare Health Nurse Clinical Practice Manager Rachel Wang Martinez about why this might be happening and how to deal with it. Most of her advice is really helpful for anyone worried about this, and if you live in Snohomish County or you鈥檙e planning on hooking up with someone in Snohomish County maybe you should be. But there鈥檚 one piece of advice Wang Martinez offers that鈥檚 a little suspect.

If you do contract an STD or an STI, she suggests you might use the website to anonymously let a former or current sexual partner know you may have transmitted something to them.

To test this system out, Jason Rantz gave me lice. But only digitally.

For the purposes of this experiment, Rantz sent me a message through informing me that I might have been exposed to pubic lice, otherwise known as crabs. The message also let me know that my time of exposure was 鈥渞eported as 1 week ago.鈥�

First of all, unless your partner is very sexually active with multiple partners, it really seems like they鈥檙e going to be able to trace it back to you. Especially if you give them a timestamp for when they were probably exposed, they鈥檙e almost certainly going to figure it out.

Here鈥檚 the second wrinkle: the receiver can reply to the sender if they鈥檙e willing to create an account on the website and pay a dollar. I, for one, would absolutely be willing to pay a dollar to send a exclamation-point riddled message calling the former partner a coward for trying to stay anonymous. But even this whole scenario presumes I didn鈥檛 already figure out who the person was and couldn鈥檛 contact them directly, which as we鈥檝e established probably wouldn鈥檛.

So, there鈥檚 really no winning with this thing. The best case scenario is someone pays a dollar to yell at you via text, the worst case is the person knows immediately who you are and you just end up looking worse because you tried to hide your identity.

I can write a passive aggressive Yelp review if my food gets messed up at a restaurant, I can shoot off a string of angry tweets about the inconsiderate guy that cuts me in line, but god forbid I ever give someone an STD, that鈥檚 not a conversation technology allows me to avoid.

Yet. I鈥檓 still holding out for a 鈥淗er鈥�-esque artificially intelligent operating system voiced by Scarlett Johansson that will handle all the conversations I rather wouldn鈥檛.