Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Romeo, Juliet, and Facebook.




One of my favorites. Actually, it's the one Shakespeare play I've read more than once. Everyone knows the story of Romeo & Juliet, so I'm not going to get into that.

But, the picture above, as clever as it is, shows the hybrid of Facebook/technology of today with classic relationships.

As such, Facebook adds on a totally different component of relationships. Some might agree, some of you might disagree with me.

Long gone are the days of smiling at your crush in the cafeteria during lunch. For now, there are text messages that 12 year olds are sending across the lunchroom. Sending love letters have been replaced with sending emails. Blind dates are still the same, but rather, the two are meeting not because friends have set them up, but through an internet site.

It seems as though Facebook and the internet have removed all romance from relationships and pending-relationships.

Problem is: Romeo and Juliet's relationship is still complicated. The real-life outside world doesn't change (quickly or as drastically) and adapt to the Facebook world.

Some girls still like to get phone calls instead of texts. But, I think that ALL girls like to see that the guy is trying OUTSIDE of just sitting at his computer GChatting a girl or BBMing her on the subway.

He thinks, "Do I IM her, GChat her, BBM, text, Facebook message, Facebook chat, poke, wink her?"

In high school, I thought that Romeo was the guy I was looking for.

But, now that I know he's on Facebook, I've lost all hope.

4 comments:

  1. Why do you have to lose hope of finding Romeo just because he's on Facebook?

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  2. There are plenty of Romeos out there and I think you'll find one!

    It's true. Nowadays,technology provides one too many options to communicate and some of us have forgotten how to pick a phone and simply dial the number and talk! Tsk, tsk, tsk...

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  3. It's not that it's because he's on Facebook but it's more that he's (and please know, this is a metaphorical "HE" as this hasn't happened to me) just using Facebook or gchat as a cop out. Does he like the girl or not? A few guys wind up asking a girl out thru the internet, but I think that it's a cool topic to look into- seeing as the dating scene has to change and evolve with the technology that life is bringing us now.

    The one problem is: I'm old fashioned. I know I'm not the only old-fashioned girl. Technology doesn't really jive well with that. But, we will see how the rest of our dating lives run with it!

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  4. I agree with you that nowadays the world of technologies has gone over the edge.

    They text each other and send the love through the facebook but when meet cannot say a word ...what kind of relationship is that?

    Of course there are several cases when all the computer GChatting a girl or BBMing her on the subway DOES end up into a marriage, but come on is it really worth the time and effort to hope for that 1 of 100 fairytale chance?

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