Comments on: QOTW: Social Media and Relationships

By: Lilian

Lilian — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 11:16:26 +0000

I spend the most time online. However, Mike does spend a lot of time online too and doing similar things to me (reading blogs, browsing social networks, researching, etc). Where we differ is that he is purely a spectator, whereas I like to contribute. So there is common ground, but enough difference to give us something interesting to talk about.

By: Amanda

Amanda — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 10:27:41 +0000

Hahaa Dylan sounds like a very practical guy! (pssst keep us informed if he manages with those solar lights…)

But uhh anyway, I’m the same, I’m quite interactive with people online, but I’ve never dated anyone who was. In fact, I don’t think I ever will… it may sound a little strange but I don’t like the idea of a boyfriend snooping around my blog tooo much (they do that though, don’t they) even if I don’t say anything private? ><

By: Crystal

Crystal — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 07:03:27 +0000

I got my ex into blogging. Now he has quite a blog empire, very active in the campus election blog coverage. Another ex turned to blogging to vent his feelings (hopefully not ALL about me lol).

By: Merinn

Merinn — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 01:42:16 +0000

I would think that two techies and two non-techies work out the best, but that’s just me. It just works out better because there’s more “common interest”, and of course it’s another conversation topic to get carried away with instead of sex and marriage. But of course, there are many relationships where the two opposites work out very well (as seen in the comments above me).

But then again, there are so many factors to a relationship that you just can’t stop at a “tech vs. non-tech” type of debate. For example, my best relationship was with someone who was like Dylan. He preferred talking to people over phone, and he primarily used the internet to do research. My worst relationship was with someone who was addicted to technology related information as I was, but things just didn’t work out for us.

By: Belinda

Belinda — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 00:16:43 +0000

While Tim isn’t very social media-ery, at the time when we met, we were both very internet people. He didn’t blog much himself, but he understands why I do it, and he thought it was very cool that I had my own website and stuff.

By: Britney

Britney — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 23:10:15 +0000

I’m like you. Most of my internet activity revolves around social networking and chatting to people. My boyfriend doesn’t understand how I can be so close with people online either. Although, he’s never online except for maybe once a month.

By: eemusings

eemusings — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 22:58:17 +0000

T is good at basic techy type troubleshooting (when my laptop throws a tanty, I have a cry and command him to FIX IT OR ELSE). But he pretty much just uses the net to watch videos, listen to music, and surf trademe. And occassionally google how to do something.

Me, I practically live online for both work and play in the blogging world!

it’s a good balanc e- he keeps me grounded.

By: Katy

Katy — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 19:24:43 +0000

My boyfriend doesn’t understand my passion for blogging, tweeting, social media, etc. either. When I go online, it’s always to read blogs, write or tweet but when he goes online, it’s only to play Mafia on Facebook and check his sports updates.

By: Darnielle

Darnielle — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 18:57:02 +0000

Despite Sam being a Comp Sci student, he doesn’t spend NEARLY as much time on the internet as I do. The only reason he has a blog is because he figured it’d be easier to enter his ideas into a searchable database, but he also wanted to share his ideas with others. He has a couple of social networking profiles, but he doesn’t really interact with anyone. The rest of his time online is spent reading comics and researching.

I’m online basically all day, every day (yay for being a bum, right?!) interacting with people like a madwoman. My internet friends are kinda like the crazy cat lady’s cats. Haha.

By: Manda

Manda — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 16:32:22 +0000

I’m pretty much the same as you. I blog, tweet, LJ, Facebook and post on some forums. I have an online circle of friends and acquaintances and hey, I was a TFL staffer for nearly 3 years. Putting that into a relationship perspective, I definitely wasn’t around online as much as I usually am when I was dating my ex as he wasn’t really a tech person – but that probably also has to do with the fact that I was just busy with real life in general (school, work, etc) and had no time for waffling about online.