I've surfed the Web and the whole dating connection. I find that pretty fascinating, but no real leads.
Technology is synonymous for connection with other people.
I'm thankful God has given us the technology where we can see each other through Skype on the computer. It's not the same thing, but at least we can see each other. Imagine the time before when that wasn't available and people had to go defend our country. It's really hard. I go two weeks without seeing my family and I go crazy.
Skype is a wonderful thing. The irony is that you never Skype when you're in the same country as someone.
I can barely even run a computer. God knows what I'd get on online dating. I'd get something that was subhuman or something.
It's nice to be able to communicate digitally with people around the world.
I never really had a lot of friends where I lived. Online, you can have thousands of friends.
Technology has given us access to the world and its sea of content, allowing us to never speak to another person if we don't want to.
I'm not on any social media. I know people who have met on Twitter and through Facebook. I had a friend, someone liked her photos on Instagram, and they started direct messaging each other and went out on a date! That's so foreign to me.
I like to have met someone in real life before being their Facebook friend.
I'm an independent game developer - there's not exactly an offline version of that. This is where my community is; everybody I'm close to I know because of the Internet.
People bemoan the loss of watercooler chat, but I think that there's more of that than ever. It's just that it's online.
I spent my 21st birthday chatting with my online friends because my husband had little interest in celebrating with me, and there was no other group of people I'd rather spend time with, even if they weren't there with me in person.
Even among those who I would not count as 'friends,' I have met many people online who have simply commented on my work or are interested by what I do.
We didn't expect it to be cool, with people trading URLs instead of phone numbers.
I have developed my most meaningful relationships online. None of them live within driving distance. None of them are about my own age.
Prior to the online platform, I had to make sure I go around and have conversations and go to schools and make appearances. But now with online presence, I try to put out videos and different posts every day. I try to inspire.
For most of our users, the vast majority of their MySpace friends are also offline friends. They're just connecting through a different medium when they're on MySpace.
My Facebook fans have become my family in a lot of ways, so when that was taken away from me, it felt like a huge part of me was shut down.
Facebook people are finding me that I don't really know. People poke you on Facebook. I'm like, 'Why? Why are you poking me?'
I think online dating is a way of procuring people. Like Facebook and Myspace, it's the way that people connect now and procure small children and sometimes dodgy relationships. I don't think it's very healthy.
We can't pretend that a Facebook friend is the same as a real friend you've shared times with together, both good times and difficult times.
These days, insecure in our relationships and anxious about intimacy, we look to technology for ways to be in relationships and protect ourselves from them at the same time.
The connection between someone in Leeds and a comedian in Los Angeles would probably never happen if it weren't for MySpace, so it enables friendship and connection far more than it limits it.
With clothing being designed that allows you to be hugged virtually, video conferencing becoming ever sharper, and our social and romantic lives increasingly taking place online, the gap between the physical and the virtual is getting ever smaller.
