Tweeting, Texting and “Liking”: What Flirting Means In The Digital Age
The “friending”
If you meet someone for a short while at a bar, party or event, you didn’t give them your last name and wake up to a “Friend Request” the next day, they had to go through a lot of work to find you. Think about it: they may have had to ask other people if they knew you. Then, they had to search through that person’s friends on Facebook to find you. If you have a common first name, they may have clicked through ten Susan’s profile photos before finding you. And finally, they pushed that little “Send Friend Request” button. But, pressing that button wasn’t simple. They knew you’d think, “Wow! How did this person find me….?” And they had to decide if their interest in you was worth putting themselves out there like that. And they decided that it was.
