So tell me everything I already know about you

One of my favorite Sunday activities is to read the weekly essay for the Modern Love article in the Fashion & Style section of The New York Times. One of the reasons that I started reading about it was after hearing about the college Modern Love essay competition.

This week’s essay is “So tell me everything I know about you” by Joanna Pearson. She recounts what happens when after meeting a guy in a bar, she goes home and googles him. She finds out all sorts of regular details about his life: that he can run a 3:59 mile, his college GPA, a few of his published articles, etc.

This was particularly interesting to me because as computer savvy people who wouldn’t know what to do without Google, college students are prone to this problem. We live in a world where facebook is an addiction and we can learn someone’s favorite movie/book/music and stalk their life through photos way before we get to meet the person.

I think that Pearson makes a great point in urging people to let relationships develop naturally. We should be able to learn details about a person by talking to them, not by reading about them on a computer screen.

want to go see a movie? …anyone? …no? …oh, okay

My roommate and I were discussing how absurd the prices have become at movie theaters today when I mentioned that the only time people go to the movies is on dates. She then aptly noted: “People don’t date anymore. They hook up instead.”

she’s a smart one that Jenny