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Interpretive Dancing

The texting, emails and all the “finger” communication happening today keeps most men and women at just a finger’s tip away. While speaking with Rebecca, whose single status varies, we were analyzing how the birth and death of a relationship gets summed up in just a week’s text. Apparently, since texting seems to be the new run of the mouth for the experienced “player(s),” and so many of us remain single, looking back, I wonder: Would Grandma have been romanced in this way?

Many generations later, while dreaming of a relationship like those of our grandparents, many single women have no choice but to sit and ponder the dating rituals of today. Knowing there were no cell phones or computers back then, I, like many other women, fantasize when an actual “read” text is often NOT misinterpreted.

While interpretive texting usually is a convenient mean for most men and women to make or break plans, is this “text dancing” just our new way to hide instead of actually taking that leap to shake a groove? How is our new technology boosting, while dating technology appears to be crashing?

1 Comment »

  1. K Said,

    December 10, 2007 @ 11:01 am

    I have to believe with the advent of texting came all sorts of holding on to ancillary relationships that never should have started, a waay easier means to begin cheating, and all sorts of awful things.

    But then again, how fun is it to get a drunken text of someone thinking of you? I practically squeal. Meaningless, completely, I know that. But it’s like someone passing you the adult version of a note. Sure it’s got an expiration date–but for now it’s been passed just to you.

    Sigh, my grandmother would be mortified. But back then people stood outside, courting at homes for 40 days and nights while it rained, didn’t they? I don’t know, seems a little creepy to me now…

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