Has the Social Media Revolution helped/hurt you romantically?

[CelticPredator]

Wasnt Facebook made to get people laid? As said in The Social Network? So it's kinda a dating site.

 

[SpideyVille]

As for me personally, that stuff doesn't impact my relationship at all. My girlfriend and I prefer talking to each other in person to via facebook or texting. Texting is a good way to ask each other something while at work, but that's about all we use it for. The funny thing was about 4-5 months after we started dating her roommate asked if we were "exclusive", we said yeah, she just wasn't sure because we didn't change our Facebook status. It never really occured to us, but just changed it that night anyway.

That would probably be one of the biggest reasons why I would support texting, so that it can be used as an alternative method of communication when talking isn't allowed. Yet nowadays, its almost like its a main source of communication, and calling is only for emergencies. A friend of mine always used to say its stupid to sit and waste 10 minutes texting someone back and forth to ask one thing when you can easily call them and get an instant answer.

 

[SpideyVille]

As for me personally, that stuff doesn't impact my relationship at all. My girlfriend and I prefer talking to each other in person to via facebook or texting. Texting is a good way to ask each other something while at work, but that's about all we use it for. The funny thing was about 4-5 months after we started dating her roommate asked if we were "exclusive", we said yeah, she just wasn't sure because we didn't change our Facebook status. It never really occured to us, but just changed it that night anyway.

That would probably be one of the biggest reasons why I would support texting, so that it can be used as an alternative method of communication when talking isn't allowed. Yet nowadays, its almost like its a main source of communication, and calling is only for emergencies. A friend of mine always used to say its stupid to sit and waste 10 minutes texting someone back and forth to ask one thing when you can easily call them and get an instant answer.

 

[Optimus_Prime_]

Wasnt Facebook made to get people laid? As said in The Social Network? So it's kinda a dating site.

Have to agree. It wasn't made so we could look at Lolz Catz or Rate Professors, we have other sites for that.

 

[hora28]

I've never believed in meeting people on line and starting a relationship like that. I used my facebook account to keep in touch with friends form high school and when I went on chatroulette it was just for fun. Yet, this is how I met my boyfriend... but it didn't change my opinion on social media: what happened to me it's a once in a lifetime opportunity and I don't think that if I were single again I'd go on a dating site. As for texting, I never use it, unless it's necessary. And I haven't changed my relationship status on fb either.

 

[Hotwire]

The new stuff is interesting. However, I'm ahead of the curve. I met my wife of 8 years, in an AOL chat room.

 

[Erzengel]

I've never believed in meeting people on line and starting a relationship like that. I used my facebook account to keep in touch with friends form high school and when I went on chatroulette it was just for fun. Yet, this is how I met my boyfriend... but it didn't change my opinion on social media: what happened to me it's a once in a lifetime opportunity and I don't think that if I were single again I'd go on a dating site. As for texting, I never use it, unless it's necessary. And I haven't changed my relationship status on fb either.

And I'm not going to click your link either.

 

[BlackLantern]

isn't chatroulette dead now?

 

[Norman Osborn]

I met my current wife on an online dating site...I don't recommend it but it certainly worked for me!

 

[SpideyVille]

I think commercials like these show what many people today expect to happen to them when they try to get involved with someone.

I mean the tagline alone is "In the network, sparks fly faster."

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[BlackLantern]

someone should show the opposite of that...the stalking, the lying, public humiliation

 

[SpideyVille]

someone should show the opposite of that...the stalking, the lying, public humiliation

Yeah, I remember when facebook first started to become popular, I wrote a comment on my friend's wall because she was trying to set me up with a friend of hers, but this girl was always following me around and would never talk to me, even though she wasn't really shy. I told my friend that I wasn't interested at the time in getting involved with anyone because of past experiences, and that her friend should at least try to talk to me first.

A few minutes later, her friend wrote on my wall and spazzed out on me. She cursed me out so bad that everyone else saw it on the news feed an was like wth? She told me to grow a pair and be a man next time and say it to her face.

 

[Rowsdower!]

This is an interesting question. I've never used Facebook (or Myspace back when it was still "cool") as a tool to meet women, but I have used it to get to know them better. For example, you meet a girl at a party, talk for a little while but that's it... but then later you friend her or she friends you and you begin testing the water with her by chatting it up on one of those sites.

However, any relationship I've had that began this way always ended up badly, whether it took a long time or it was over in a hot minute. But that might just be dating and life in general. Not sure if MyFace had anything to do with it in any of those instances.

 

[SpideyVille]

This is an interesting question. I've never used Facebook (or Myspace back when it was still "cool") as a tool to meet women, but I have used it to get to know them better. For example, you meet a girl at a party, talk for a little while but that's it... but then later you friend her or she friends you and you begin testing the water with her by chatting it up on one of those sites.

However, any relationship I've had that began this way always ended up badly, whether it took a long time or it was over in a hot minute. But that might just be dating and life in general. Not sure if MyFace had anything to do with it in any of those instances.

Yeah, I never thought of it as a way to meet people, but rather to get to know them better. Though I do remember this one time where I didn't really know a girl, but I friended her on facebook before I actually spoke to her person. I would talk to her every now and then in school, but then she friended me on myspace and gave my her aim screename and we would talk there. Then before our christmas break she told me online that we should do something over the break. But when I asked her out in person, she gave me the run-around and said her dad didn't let her have a boyfriend (even though I saw her kissing like an animal with some dude a few weeks prior).

It took me a while to finally let her go, but i learned that face to face communication was key to meeting people.

 

[SpideyVille]

someone should show the opposite of that...the stalking, the lying, public humiliation

Just saw these commercial on TV.

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[iunic]

The new stuff is interesting. However, I'm ahead of the curve. I met my wife of 8 years, in an AOL chat room.

It happened to a friend of mine too... and then people say you can't meet your half online...