The world has gone tech and romance has gone with it.
In this era of text messages, e-mails, the MySpace vs. Facebook debacle and convenient online dating websites, I’ve suddenly realized how annoying it is to have to check each cyber account just to find true love, maintain true love or tortuously be rejected by “seven different portals of technology”.
Why is it that we’ve allowed ourselves to apathetically stare at some kind of screen, albeit conveniently in our underwear, instead of getting our sorry selves off the couch and into the world of face-to-face relational contact?
Skype doesn’t count.
In light of my new personal goal to avoid relationships via technology, I’ve decided to dedicate this next series, entitled “Love in the Age of Tech”, to how we, as relational human beings can slowly re-adapt ourselves to pursuing romance without the limiting, awkward and taboo portal of text messaging, social networking sites and computers.
Who’s with me?!
So does this make you a “Luddite”?
I agree that we have relied too much on impersonal means to establish personal relationship. I think they have their time and place, however. I’m in a long-distance relationship (Tahoe to Rocklin) that I think is healthy and promising. At best, the relationship would be more difficult without 21st century methods of communication. We’d be writing letters and spending ridiculous $$$ on long-distance bills. At worst, we wouldn’t even be together (as a couple early Facebook comments helped sparked the relationship). I try to see her once a week, but Skype, email, and texting, make the time in between much better.
I am ambivalent about this. On the one hand I completely agree with you. I have seen what you are talking about. It seems like some people rely solely on technology to communicate with others. Both in terms of dating and otherwise. On the other hand, without modern technology I think maintaining relationships would be very difficult. Again, both in terms of dating and otherwise. I keep in touch with friends and family via Facebook, email, cell phone, and texting. My boyfriend and I both work a lot and don’t get to see each other as often as we’d like, so we certainly utilize modern technology. We talk on the phone daily, we text, we Facebook, etc. And, yes, I did just use Facebook as a verb. LOL!