It's always interesting to ponder all the ways technology has changed our lives. Not just the equipment, like personal computers, flat screen televisions and ATMs, but the way we all communicate and interact with each other.
I was just reading one of those "relationship" articles, written for a female audience, and I was struck by one of the dating tips. It said that at the beginning of a dating relationship, the woman shouldn't be the first one to change her status on Facebook to "in a relationship." Let him change his status first. That's just not one of the things we had to worry about when I was in high school.
In those days, boys had control of the asking out, because "nice" girls didn't call boys, but on the other hand, boys were pretty much always expected to pay for the date too. Susie might see Janie's boyfriend out with another girl and run home to call Janie and tell her about it, but there was no real-time texting or cell phone video evidence. If Boyfriend wanted to break up with Janie, he had to have the guts to tell her personally. Break-up by Facebook status just hadn't been invented yet. And we didn't have to worry about those incriminating cell phone pictures being posted on the internet for all the world to see.
So is the whole dating/relationship dance easier now that we have all these new ways to communicate? I'm still thinking about that, but there's no question at all that it's different.
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