Once upon a time a boy asked out a girl…in person. The only things they knew about each other resulted from hearsay or prior conversations with one another.
Flash-forward to today – a girl is considered lucky if a boy asks her out during a phone call. Usually the question comes in the form of a Facebook message or an SMS (short message system), whether that is a text message or an instant message.
Then during the date you ask the usual date questions – you know, how many siblings do you have? What’s your favorite movie? What’s your major? – And as your date answers, you’re saying to yourself “yeah, yeah, I already know the answers, because I spent two and half hours Googling and Facebooking you after you asked me out.”
In this day and age you can practically date someone through the Internet before you physically go on a date – but doesn’t take the fun out of dating?
Ed Board thinks so.
Dating is all about getting to know a person. How can you get to know someone whose personal information is splattered all over the Internet?
Thanks to modern technology younger generations struggle to carry on a conversation with one other person. It’s as if nothing can hold our attention for more than five minutes. Technology is an amazing development, however, it hinders us in ways we cannot afford.
Technology has created communication gaps. We are no longer capable of sitting down and having full conversations – you know, the kind with verbs and pronouns, none of which are abbreviated.
It seems dates are secondary to everything else now.
People nowadays think dates are weird. College atmosphere is partly to blame – there are so many social opportunities for interactions in part due to parties and organized groups. But are we relying too much on these types of interactions?
YES!
Get out there. Talk to human beings, accidentally forget your cell phone, or turn off the computer.
How will you ever be able to settle down with one person for the rest of your life if you are incapable of verbal communication with other human beings?
Don’t get us wrong – it’s nice when you’re able to Google your date to make sure he isn’t on the FBI’s Most Wanted list, or discover he is actually married with three kids.
But to go as far as to search for his house on an appraisal Web site is a little much.
In college, it’s nice to Facebook/MySpace your date for some general background information – it makes for good conversation starters.
But please, please, please don’t go stalking your date’s ex-girlfriend on Facebook or digging too much into his life via Google. We are sure only bad things can come from this.
Internet stalking your date will end up ruining the actual event for you, not to mention your date.
