The rules of dating are looking a bit different
A year ago Laura Sessions Stepp, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, released a book that chronicled the new teen hook-up culture. According to Stepp the dating world of the past has been replaced by the "hook-up," which is only a casual physical experience instead of actually going on a date. This includes kissing to intercourse, but there is no emotion or relationship involved.
Stepp claims that teen romance has died.
However, San Francisco teens and twenty-year-olds say that this is not true. The name of the game has changed but instead of "dating," they "go out." If things between a couple start to get on the serious side, they will announce it online and become official on Facebook.
Many teens will not get together with someone that they have not gone out with.
Stepp disagrees, she came to different conclusions when she researched her book, "Unhooked: How Young Women Pursue Sex, Delay Love, and Lose at Both." She felt that many teens were coming together with friends or acquaintances into their college years.
[Via: ContraCostaTimes]