the relating rules have changed in this new age of social media and sometimes its hard to keep up with them.  How does the new relating landscape look & what do we need to be aware of now when starting or finishing relationships?   Online dating has changed dramatically in the last 3 or 4 years as social media sites have become ever more popular.  As a lot of dating sites often only pay lip service to helping you find a match, users can now take this process into their own hands, thanks to social media sites.  There people can meet freely and get to know each other through every day actions & words (status updates).

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I came across this brilliant TED talk by Renny Gleeson a few weeks back and it made me very thoughtful about how our social environment has changed over the years. Due to technology & social networks many of us are no longer inside our relationships but outside looking in. No doubt this would have occurred in the past but now technology & the environment support us in viewing/sharing our relationships rather than enjoying & participating in them. Check out Renny’s talk & let me know in the comments how you feel about his perspective. Its funny & enjoyable to watch whilst making a statement about our technological social life.

Maybe we are living the geek’s version of being social and in relationship?  As you know a high percentage of geeks are intraverted????  So we may now be living an introverted extroversion????  See an old post of mine that was published in the book Blog08 extrovert and introvert matches.

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Disposable relationships?  Instant Gratification?  What do you think?

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during the week I asked a few questions about online dating sites from people on Aardvark and got some pretty negative responses.  Aardvark is a great site where you can ask questions about anything & get responses either by email or IM.  Its fun & a great way to have conversations, much as I love Twitter, I dont always get responses to questions on Twitter, possibly everyone is too busy trying to sell themselves or something?  After the responses I received, I decided to write a post about whats wrong with online dating sites because it seems they are not listening.  Has that got something to do with the fact that the majority are run by men????

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wouldn’t it be great if online dating sites were more like social networks?  These days most people spend a lot of time interacting on social networks, you dont have to be a geek now!  I have to own up to being very partial to social networks and find that in contrast online dating sites can be less friendly or able to deliver a good match, probably due to their fear of loss of customers?

“There are three kinds of death in this world. There’s heart death, there’s brain death, and there’s being off the network.” Guy Almes

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