Wednesday, September 7, 2011
The wonderful thing about social media is...
I have come to realize that without social media I would not have met my boyfriend. It was a Thursday morning in July and I just parked my car when I got a text message from my mother. I was walking to the train station to catch my train into New York City for my internship. My mother asked me if she could give Geoff a resident my phone number. I met him briefly in the past and was attracted to him but thought nothing of it. I figured he was either not going to interested in a college girl or he was in a current relationship. Boy was I wrong about both of those! I gave my mother the green light to give him my phone number. He immediately asked her for my full name and found me on Facebook. Before I knew it he friend requested me and wrote me a Facebook message. Facebook allowed him to see pictures of me as well as my interests, which allowed him to get to know me a little before he met me. Unfortunately I did not get the Facebook message until a few days later. Nonetheless he called me that same Thursday night at around 11pm to ask me out. He was very persistent and according to him he could not wait to ask me out. Ever since we have been in a relationship and things have been great! If it weren't for social media I may have never had the chance to go out with him. Even though my mother gave him my phone number, Facebook connected us on our own level and we got to see what the other was like before we even met each other. Social media is helpful and beneficial in many ways. It connects us to one another. Without social media we wouldn't know half the people we know today.
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I am so happy for you, that is a very exciting story. I have heard how social media has connected people romantically in the past and it is so refreshing and interesting to hear. I have a similar story, kind of. My boyfriend and I met at a social with my sorority and his fraternity. We hit it off and kept in touch through text messaging…kind of. At that point, everyone always plays the game of “oh I’m not texting him till he texts me!” or “I am going to wait 2 hours before I text him back so I’m not too needy.” Stupid things like that. So, we found each other on the Iphone game “Words With Friends”, which has texting capabilities. Since we were constantly playing the game against each other it wasn’t as awkward and nerve racking to text through the game and send flirty competitive texts back and forth. After a week or so of that we had our first date and we have been dating for a year now. Not necessarily social media, but a social technological game. Neither of us play anymore, once we found each other we kind of gave up on the game…
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed reading both your stories, they were so cute! They reminded me of online dating for some reason. The idea where you can get to know someone (interests, likes, dislikes etc.) through social media before even meeting them. So many more people have turned to online dating sites to meet a significant other nowadays. I feel like it lets people be more choosy with who they are looking for. It's interesting how the internet has helped people create long lasting relationships, but is online dating authentic? It may be harder to be yourself when behind a computer screen you can be anyone you choose to be.
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