A simple story of how we can all fall in love with digital technology this Valentines Day..
Online Dating
Meet online through a dating site or social forum where you have expressed similar ideas thoughts and emotions. Study each other’s profile and information, check out popularity and social skills by looking at number of shares, how many shares and the size of your social network of contacts. Understand how private you are as a person by your visibility settings, how mature you are by how tightly you control your reputation online based on how many pictures there are of you drinking and at wild parties.
Social media
Use social media to connect and develop the first stages of relationship, understand whether you are a creative or analytical person – do they like Pinterest to make lists or are they all about the beautiful images on Instagram? Look at how much you have to say about politics or is it all about the social side of life..are you carefree or really driven by world issues? Send those first few private messages to each other, the important break away from the group, the first whispering conversation in the cloak room of a party. Study the language, the emoticons, the punctuation. Short and punchy. Long flowing conversations full of rich descriptions of situations, experiences and moods.
Smart phones
Arrange to meet and flirt some more using social on on your smart phone with WhatsApp instant messenger and social platforms. Feel that well of anticipation and excitement when you see a push message come through from them and feel the disappointment when you don’t here from them for a few hours or minutes. Arrange to meet, share links on the web to your favourite bars, read the reviews, decide how cool they are. Start to share what they send you on your network, build the trust, start to fall in love and connect. Use Google Maps to guide you to your first real human face to face contact and begin the journey.
Happy Valentines
And that is how you fall in love with digital technology this valentines.
To my beautiful wife Louise.
PS. when we met Facebook wasn’t even a year old!