Technology has made dating too impersonal and rushed. I'm a fine one to talk yes, as I sit in an airport lounge blogging via wireless card on my laptop and hoping Mr. Default Settings calls on my roaming Digicel mobile before I have to board. :)
But seriously, instant gratification is taking over like the plague. I met a guy in Grenada the other day, we didn't get an opportunity to speak much but we exchanged business cards when I was leaving. He took the card, checked for my email address, asked if the cell number on the card roams and then said 'I'll google you'.
Call me old fashioned but that comment did not warm my heart one iota. As soon as I could, I googled myself. I was shocked at how much stuff came up: newspaper articles, university group activities, even photos on work related websites and comments about me on peoples blogs!! I skimmed over all this information that he would probably find and felt misrepresented.
Nothing there to say if I eat olives on my pizza, what I sing in the shower or if I am kind to animals. Would this be useful data to help speed up the whole getting-to-know-you phase? What ever happened to walks on the beach, handwritten love notes and courting each other slowly...?
Anyways, I gone send Default a quick email yes, his blackberry probably on silent cause he's in a meeting.... ;)
18 comments:
You are sooooo right. But convenience does come with a price, doesn't it? Who wants to wait for snail mail or waiting until you get home to make a phone call? I know, I know. But it is true!
Spice, these are the days of eHarmony and Match.com. Nobody writes love notes anymore .... except me of course. I'm a hopeless romantic and not caught up the tech-cyber-love world.
I need your name so I can google you too.... Actually, you don't get much on me if you google me by my real name (tho you get loads of stuff on other people who have copied my name... bastards! >:(
Google mad bull and you get much, much more on me.... :)
Maybe it's best not to exchange cards anymore. Just tell the guys your first name and get their phone number. :)
You can classify men, talk about BlackBerrys, Armani, the Ritz Carlton, First Class lounges, and Chloe but yet you cannot spell basic words. It's lime and opportunity. What a simple and trifling individual you are.
I google, I hi5 ( much more effective ). but I find that cellphones do the most damage. I mean you can be talking to a girl and some random guy that she met at the club the night before just calls her up and tries to have a "cellphone date" with her at some random point it time. Probably him just come off a someting and decide fi buzz another one. I'm not hating - I'm just not much of a phone guy at all. bad expirences, you call me.
Isn't blackberries spelled with an 'ie' not a 'y'? Anon people kill me.
Hahahah anon is an idiot. I do not mind anonymous comments but not when they are used to take back biting stabs at peeps. Then they are just being used as a means of being petty and show a lack of character. Back to the blog - technology has completely changed our lives not just googling peeps but also because so many of us strike up friendships we have never met and will probably never meet but we communicate through blogs.
Anonymous needs to get laid.
I googled myself, nothing. I googled my site name, nothing. Sigh. Me Thinks Google needs to get with the times.
That is a definate mood killer though, even if you are going to do it, there is no need to say it out loud.
yeah that anon comment was messed up. This post makes me think of those virtual-sex-suit-and-visor things...maybe he's into that stuff haha
Well I googled me and only thing that came up was a review I did on a camera about 8 years ago. I have no internet presence. anon is a moronic mastermind. If you intend to comment at least be man/woman enough about it to leave an identity. Why post crap and hide?
I have to fess up. I'm a serial googler. I google everyone! Co-workers, my friends, myself, lecturers, bosses, acquaintances, as long as I have a name, you're going to be googled. I've googled everyone who uses their correct name in their blog. My friends think I need help.
What's with that wretched anonymous poster?
Welcome to my lil online world dcgirl, aarond and ttfootball!! Happy to meet ya. Good to see the rest of y'all still visiting me too.
I see I have started a googling frenzy! Please don't anyone go out and pull a 'jackass' just to get online. :)
Anon, thanks for the spellcheck tho Mani and Hottie already called me on the spelling of lyme/lime.. I cyann spel fer shyte yes! Leon told me to use word spellcheck but i was catching a plane nah.
Finally, KG you are on the money honey .. tho Anon resorted to being mean :( I notice he/she read and quoted from alot of my posts plus made a comment. Thats alot of time to spend on my 'trifling' site eh? I come across tons of blogs that after a quick scan I just move on..
Yo..any press is good press! And thanks for the support you guys! :)
Ugh! If my real name is Googled, all that comes up is some boring work-related stuff. I definitely do not want to be known for that. But, regardless, any guy who thinks that 'I'll Google you' is an appropriate get-to-know-me line is not going to get much past Google is getting to know me. :)
P.S. Thanks for visiting my blog.
As someone who personally dislikes cyber cowards, I think you responded to yours quite nicely. Doh mind I know yuh well cuss when yuh read it :)
Spice, is that drying paw paw seeds in your pic? I know I know it, but I can't recall it now.
Welcome Parlancheq! Liming is the trini term for anything from standing idly around to partying. I choose to spel it 'lyme' which some people don't like :)
Hottie: Ah did a course in diplomacy.. glad u like.
Those are black pepper seeds. I am gonna try some cinnamon and pimento next.
You handled yourself graciously! That anonymous comment ruffled my feathers from way across the ocean.
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