More on High Tech Dating
I do have a cell phone, but I hardly ever use it. It’s practically an antique. My step daughter Mishelle gave it to me several years ago when she was ready for a new one. She’s probably gotten a couple more since.
So while I am literate on the computer and the Net, I’m getting left behind in the world of text messaging, blackberries and blue teeth.
But those Who Know About Such Things say that such devices (along with instant messaging) are revolutionizing dating. Text messaging and instant messaging seem to be the current lowest-risk forms of making first, second or third contacts with a potential date.
The lines between dating the “Old Fashioned Way” and the now mainstream Internet dating are getting very blurry. For lots of folks, email is a great way to get to know someone (as online daters already know), and they give out email adresses instead of phone numbers. And certainly sending an email is a lot lower risk that phone calling. One of my clients has been enduring phone calls that go no where with what should have been a blind date but hasn’t gotten that far yet. She would far prefer to move the conversation online.
With this blurring and razor-thin cutting of the “Me? You? Me and you?” negotiations, it’s gotta be getting much harder to tell what’s a real date. A friend of mine dreams of some guy calling and asking her on a date. That seems so old-fashioned these days that it is hard to imagine it happening. We’ll see.
From Your Romance Coach, Kathryn Lord
