Are you about to have a Facebookationship?

2 months ago 15th May 13:42

The other day, I found out about a new function on Facebook that fixes you up with people that you might, or should know. I found this out, whilst standing at a bar (drunk), from a person who I apparently might have, or should have known- conversation starter or what?

A week later, and I’m sitting in his house, however many miles away from home, having a really good time! Facebook is opening up a world of possibilities. Bosses, or potential bosses can make assumptions about how suited you are for a job, teachers can feel reassured of their popularity (although they’d probably swear they don’t check!), or as was the case in Reading, get you removed from your university for what you think and share about them.

Probably little more than two weeks ago some bright spark had this idea- super networking really- and thanks to them, I got talking to someone I would smile at, out of polite recognition more than anything, and now here I am.

As a serial singleton- out of choice I hasten to add- I am wary of what this new way of forming relationships, but so far I’m surprisingly happy, and he seems happy too. A powerful tool in the realm of work has moved its remit into the field of love. Scared?

So is this what people from the future will call a Facebookationship? People no longer have to settle for the people they come directly into contact with; you can initiate conversations with people you might never have gotten talking to; you can recommend a friend to a friend and have a poke around inside their book? Would it be?

To show them just how compatible they’d be if only they’d meet; you can meet someone on a night out and make sure they have friends, and they weren’t just some loner praying on the drunk and suggestible! The possibilities, it would appear, are endless.

The days of post-university marriages because it’s ‘the done thing’, and the obligatory messy divorce and battle for the kids afterwards, it would appear, may be numbered. Thank god! Because, you can pretty much find, anyone!

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