For the record – I’m talking about me as the tech-savvy guy…
Spoke with my bio-mom today on the phone… She was visiting my brother in Kansas City – he’s stationed near there for the short term. They were both trying to find pictures of my girlfriend, presumably from her ‘friend account’ on either FaceBook or MySpace – linked to mine.
Well, what they didn’t know is that my girlfriend belongs to neither of those services. In fact, my girlfriend found it quite humorous that my family – or anybody for that matter would expect a significant other to automatically be on the other’s social network page.
After telling everybody that my girlfriend was intentionally not my friend because she chooses to not be a ‘virtual friend’ – my mother goes on to seek reassurance that we’re still dating…
Now, I ask you this: Why is it so hard to imagine a tech-savvy individual, like myself, dating a self-admitted ‘techno-phobe’ (or something like that)? Why does society expect similar people to be paired together in relationships? Haven’t ‘we’ gotten past that yet?