Text messaging killing the magic of dating
Nearly everyone nowadays owns a cell phone and much of the drama of dating and relationships takes place through text messaging: pick-ups, conversations, foreplay, fights and even breaking up occur in a series of short messages.
Sometimes one couple will not even have a single moment of face-to-face conversation.
Communication studies professor Rebecca Sullivan says that this phenomenon has good points and bad points. It depends on weather a person can adjust to this modern way of dating or not.
She says, "We have entered a whole new realm of tiered dating."
"It used to be you'd have a phone call and if it worked out, great. Now, you go from e-mail to text messaging to 'OK, I'll let you into my Facebook site,' to 'maybe we might actually have a phone call and then a coffee date.'"
At this point the dinner date has not even been addressed.
Sullivan says, "On the one hand, for the anonymous encounter aficionado, the times have never been better. But for the person seeking a relationship, you've got to really jump through some hoops. There are a lot of gateways towards your perfect mate now."
[Via: canada.com]