Who needs a warm body to get off when my phone keeps vibrating. I bet you your phone gets more action than you do.
The benefit of technology is the access to text, email, real time updates and sharing between friends through Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace. The downside is that dating and forming friendships seems to be easier digitally than it is face to face.
People don’t make time for romance anymore, they send messages over the internet to say everything they should say to your face..I love you…I like you…I wanna see you…I miss you. If you are lucky you will get a full text and not the short abbreviations. Making a telephone call is even considered extinct. Where waiting to receive a phone call used to be torture, consider these days when you know they got your message because they just updated their Facebook status on their cell phone, and you know they did because Facebook publishes when and how you updated your status. Talk about rejection eh?
It must be the thrill people get from publically having power and control over how you make someone feel without confronting them first – at least verbally. You break up and make online…changing your relationship status from “in a relationship” to “it’s complicated”. You post pictures and tag yourself in other friends photos when you know those pics can be possibly seen by the very person you are trying to avoid.
Instead of a warm hug and kiss, a smiley face and some explicit sexting has become an acceptable form of affection. By the time you sit down and have a conversation with that person, they are at a loss for words because they said everything in a text message or email.
The best way to cope is to cut it off, easier said than done. We gals are just as guilty for indulging in the butterflies we get from anticipation just to see if we could get a response longer than 160 characters. What is sad is that we measure the importance of the meaning of text messages and emails by how much time it took in between the last message you sent them.
YES – he answered me in 10 minutes and the next day he text me 3 times…HE LIKES ME HE REALLY REALLY LIKES ME!
NOT he is probably bored and killing time. But whatever floats your boat.
If I had a choice between flowers being sent to me, nice dinner date and someone text or emailing me 10 times a day…I would take the flowers and the date. 160 characters on a 3G network can never replace true chivalry.
