I truly believe technology is playing a role. What my generation used to call "makin babies in the bushes", is now referred to as "hooking up".

I think the internet access and common literacy it itself have changed potential love-lives of the future. Hell even Agnostic.com can be considered a type of social media, though it is more of a forum. I have friends I've met and some I haven't. I met my bf through a friend though I was 'introduced' on msn.

Yes. I've learned a lot about myself and have reconstructed a lot of my dating polices because of my experiences on this website.

Maybe! I have a friend that I love dearly and would marry her in a minute but I have never met her. We are online friends that have known each other over a year. I know that she would marry me also but she says she could not live in my state. OK, I don't have enough money to live in her state. This automatically makes money and the lack of it the thing that will break the relationship because she also has no money. At least both of us know this in advance. I know people who have been married for years to discover that this money situation ends up busting them up.

everything changes everything, but i really don't think any of this is so new. i think the problems we have of rejecting people for things that don't really matter, or being attracted to a face or body and finding out only too late there is no compatibility, or any of the rest of it we blame on technology, or new generations, or old generations, are actually old problems that will be with us forever because we are who we are.

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