Love and Technology

Ever-evolving technology over the past two decades has certainly affected how we work, play and communicate with others. In the same vein, technology has also changed the way we go about our love lives. Read on to find out how technology has both positively and negatively influenced our generation’s romantic relationships.

Pro: Technology has made long-distance relationships easier to bear. E-mails, text messages, webcams and the growing use of Skype—a software allowing people to make phone calls with a computer—has allowed us to be in touch with our faraway love wherever, whenever.

Con: E-mails with short (albeit sweet) messages, such as “i luv u”, have taken the place of longer, hand-written love letters of yore. It’s a shame that all mail carriers seem to deliver nowadays are bills, bills, bills.

Pro: Advancement in technology has particularly broadened the scope of sex toys, from cell phone-activated vibes, to vibrators moving to the sounds of our mp3 player!

Con: Proper dating etiquette has certainly gone down since the Internet and cell phones have come into existence. Instead of breaking up with someone in person, some men and women have now resorted to doing it vie e-mail or text messaging.

Pro: Cell phones allow all fashionably-late women to have a way to get in touch with their guy, particularly ours, who has been waiting outside the restaurant for 30 minutes now…

Con: We rue the day we thought we were the Best. Girlfriend. Ever. by buying our guy his very own copy of Guitar Hero. We only have ourselves to blame that he spends more time with the video game than with us.

Pro: The Internet has given people a whole new way to communicate with potential lovers—thank you, Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks!—and brought us the wonderful world of online dating.

Con: Laptops have allowed both men and women to bring work home and, yes, into the bedroom. While we give technology props for our ever-growing productivity, laptops in bed don’t really do wonders for our sex lives.

Pro:  When we’re feeling particularly lonely and need a quick pick-me-up that only our guy can provide, we can (for the most part) get in touch with him fairly quickly—no matter where he is!

Con: Everyone is so connected nowadays, that we can reach people all day, wherever they are. Our guys can keep us up-to-date on all important and inconsequential goings-on of their day, but that leaves us with little to talk about when we get home in the evenings.