“Could you date someone who doesn’t use Facebook, txting, and all that kind of stuff?” I asked last Sunday during dinner with two girlfriends. “Could you be with someone who doesn’t communicate the same way you do?”<\/p>\n
It’s self-centered, but I couldn’t be with someone who does not use email or cell phone. <\/p>\n
Someone who does not use Facebook or Twitter…perhaps that’s ok. But at the same time, what’s the fine line? After so many years of being online, I am comfortable with sharing parts of my life online. I blog, I tweet, I play four square…all these things that broadcast so many things about me.<\/p>\n
At some level, it’s a nice way to draw lines of privacy.<\/p>\n
I knew someone who “hacked” around the Internets and found all my blogs, my social media accounts, my private journals, my non-private journals. It was as if he found my entire identity. To some level, that’s not what I want. But I want someone to be able to share…be interested in the activities I partake in.<\/p>\n
What if there is someone who reads blogs…the kind that appeal to a wide audience like TMZ and follows tweeters like THE_REAL_SHAQ<\/a>? But not mine, because like many people would say, “I would rather ask you in person.”<\/p>\n And there’s the rub. All this digital media is meant to be temporary…something that substitutes for the lack of real-person interaction. I do want to tell people of the great moment I had last week, the accident of yesterday, and share the photos of my dinner. But it’s because people are not there, people cannot be there, people’s schedules don’t match mine.<\/p>\n In the end, I’ll remember what I post in my blog and at the dinners that we have, I might just repeat what I just wrote 15 hours, 23 minutes, 10 seconds ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “Could you date someone who doesn’t use Facebook, txting, and all that kind of stuff?” I asked last Sunday during dinner with two girlfriends. “Could you be with someone who doesn’t communicate the same way you do?” It’s self-centered, but … Continue reading