Good things happen when you use Google images for reasons other than stalking people. I was looking for an image of a pit for a power point slide and stumbled on this gem.
Showing posts with label Stalking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Stalking. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Social Media Leads to Sex
Today in statements of the obvious: Matt Lauer is casually hot. It's snowing in NYC, oh and social media leads to sex. I love the following quote from the Men's Fitness study released this week: "Nearly four out of five women and three out of five men say they believe texting, Facebook and other social networking tools cause couples to jump into bed faster." It kind of reminds me of the awesome video of Brian Williams making fun of the New York Times story Discovering Brooklyn "Open air markets like Chippewa posts. Young men and women wearing ironic glasses. Artisinal cheeses for sale...on the street!"
The idea that technology gets you laid certainly isn't breaking news for the techromance audience. Technology moves at lightning speed, putting the world (of dating) at our fingertips and giving suitors a more efficient means of getting ROI on their efforts. Just think of the effort it takes to call someone and set up a date -- getting up the balls, figuring out what you are going to say, doing it, then following through on the plan. Or you can group text 3 people you are "talking to" simultaneously and see who's up for a night cap at your place after you've combed through the bar for potential prospects and landed on nada after seeing them with the ugly lights on. Please note: Nada is NOT a hot exchange student.
That being said there are some "findings" in the study that are paricularly amusing -- see my notes alongside of them in red.
1. Texting is the No. 1 way lovers stay in touch, the survey found, with men texting 39 per cent more often than phoning and women 150 per cent more. (Women somehow think that by texting they are adhereing to the age old rule that they shouldn't call a guy...newsflash ladies, texting is the new calling)
2. Even before the magic begins, 70 per cent of women and 63 per cent of men use Google and other online tools to screen potential dates. (Males are inferior to females because there is a higher percentage that cannot work the internet)
3. Once the relationship clicks, 72 per cent of women report scouring a current partner’s ex-girlfriends’ Facebook pages. (Scouring should be replaced with saving the image to her desktop and circulating it to her friends on email and asking "is she hotter than me?")
That's all folks. I know it's technically TechBromance month but I just couldn't shut up about this one.
Sunday, August 1, 2010
Location Based Stalking: Foursquare is Creepy
Facebook stalking is so common now a days, that I actually think its offensive if someone takes you out without doing some online research. Its kind of like going into a job interview and asking the employer to tell you about the company.
But the social media world can also go too far when it takes the information that is at our finger tips and lets us use it to put people under our thumbs. A good friend was at the beach in LBI two weekends ago and was uploading photos and commenting about the fun he was having. Fastforward 3 hours later and he gets a text from a girl he has been casually seeing asking him what he was doing. He responded that he was down at LBI and she commented back "OMG me too!"Coincidence? He thinks not. FourSquare, the mobile GPS that lets you check in to locations is also propelling this trend. A good girlfriend recently checked into a bar and was shocked when an ex walked in shortly thereafter. He said he was in the neighborhood, saw she was there and wanted to say hi. That night she earned the socially awkward badge.
I hate to be a romanTECH pessimists but according to the New York Observer's report on research released this week from Forester 80%of Foursquare users are educated white males -- wait isn't that the same profile as a serial killer? Ok I am praying that people continue to use this technology for good and not e-vil. The last thing we need is a CSI episode based on a girl that checked in one too many times before checking out for good. What do we think?
But the social media world can also go too far when it takes the information that is at our finger tips and lets us use it to put people under our thumbs. A good friend was at the beach in LBI two weekends ago and was uploading photos and commenting about the fun he was having. Fastforward 3 hours later and he gets a text from a girl he has been casually seeing asking him what he was doing. He responded that he was down at LBI and she commented back "OMG me too!"Coincidence? He thinks not. FourSquare, the mobile GPS that lets you check in to locations is also propelling this trend. A good girlfriend recently checked into a bar and was shocked when an ex walked in shortly thereafter. He said he was in the neighborhood, saw she was there and wanted to say hi. That night she earned the socially awkward badge.I hate to be a romanTECH pessimists but according to the New York Observer's report on research released this week from Forester 80%of Foursquare users are educated white males -- wait isn't that the same profile as a serial killer? Ok I am praying that people continue to use this technology for good and not e-vil. The last thing we need is a CSI episode based on a girl that checked in one too many times before checking out for good. What do we think?
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