Dating is Dead
Recently an article in the Daily Campus, written by Nikki Cloer discussed the movement of the current dating culture into cyber space. The article titled, “Dating is Dead,” pleaded that people stop relying on text messaging and facebooking to contact people and actually pick up the phone.
I totally agree.
I personally have had similar experiences to the author where someone you didn’t realize you knew, or better yet you didn’t realize knew you, messages or friend requests you on facebook. It’s just creepy.
Honestly, us girls really don’t ask for much. Introduce yourself and show us that you want to get to know us. Any guy who asks a girl out without even knowing her name by, facebook message is obviously in it for the wrong reasons. Don’t be a “virtual Romeo.”
Dating is not the only place that people have become obsessed with communicating digitally. Everywhere you go people seem to have a cell phone glued to their ear. People create their own community…their speed dial list. Forget casual conversation amongst the people around you, or even moments of mental peace. We have to communicate with people in one form or another all the time.
Think about college students. We are either in class (often texting), out of class on the phone, hanging out with our friends, or talking to them online. Whatever happened to being alone in your own thought?
I think that the digital age as Nikki said has contributed to the ‘death of dating,’ but something else is lost when you don’t talk to people face to face. You can’t sense expression, personality, or emotion (as much as the emoticon tries). People need to not only call people versus text messaging, but get off the phone, look around you, be a part of the community you live in rather than only those you “accept friend request” to.
