Dating S.O.S

Who isn’t on FaceBook these days? Or, as I more appropriately like to call it: CrackBook. Although it has this great feature of searching your address books for contacts already addicted, this can backfire when it reunites you with your past five boyfriends.

Some seem to use this to their advantage, by getting back in touch with their very first boyfriend, while other consider deleting this direct gateway to their ex’s new girlfriend. Either way, FaceBook will definitely tell whether your old beau as moved on.

However, facebook can also put you in touch with your next best date: it reunites, potentially, everyone you have at one point emailed in one safe happy place where you get to interact with each other. All this communication goes on from the comfort of your PJ’s, and thus it’s much like “online dating” all your off-line friends. In addition, you get to see pictures of all those people you’ve emailed-but-never-met (e.g. work related contacts). I was pleasantly surprised when I discovered a guy with a very old sounding phone-voice can’t possibly be older than 30, unless he’s using a ten year old picture. I have to admit it does make you curious about people, and perhaps we can call facebook the new gossip magazine for non-celebrities. This comes together with possible facebook stalkers.

Casual comments are written on “walls” all over the world, and sometimes these comments allow you to get back in touch with people you would otherwise never talk to. Considering you never, truly never, know where your next date comes from, FaceBook may be time well wasted, and your next date could just around the next FaceBook wall.