This presentation explores how the concept of dating has changed drastically with the development of technology, and even more so with the creation of Facebook!

1. image: Getty at TIME Healthland
IT’S NOT OFFICIAL UNTIL
IT’S FACEBOOK OFFICIAL
BY SHAY REBECCA

2. krish.tipirneni: flickr
MORE AND MORE PEOPLE ARE CHOOSING TO
RECONNECT WITH THEIR PAST RELATIONSHIPS
THROUGH FACEBOOK

3. RETROSEXUAL: A
PERSON WHO
REACHES INTO THEIR
OWN PAST TO GAIN
CONTACT WITH AN
OLD FLAME, AND
THEN STARTS THAT
ROMANTIC
RELATIONSHIP
AGAIN
Thorsten Becker: flickr

4. josemanuelerre: flickr
THE MAIN REASON PEOPLE PURSUE RETROSEXING
IS FOR THE COMFORT AND SECURITY IT ALLOWS,
AND HAS THE ADDED BENEFIT OF MAKING YOU
FEEL YOUNG AGAIN

5. PEOPLE ARE Yodel Anecdotal: flickr
ALSO MORE
LIKELY TO
FEEL SAFER
ADDING
STRANGERS
THAT
THEY
HAVE
FRIENDS
IN COMMON
WITH

6. FACEBOOK IS A GREAT WAY TO MEET AND KEEP
IN TOUCH WITH PEOPLE BECAUSE FACEBOOK
REFLECTS YOUR REAL WORLD RELATIONSHIPS
AND PROVIDES AN AUTHENTIC AND TRUSTED
ENVIRONMENT
dans le rêve's: flickr

7. EVEN BEFORE DATING, FACEBOOK CREEPING
HELPS US GET TO KNOW THE PERSON
IF YOU ARE THINKING OF GOING OUT WITH A
GUY AND YOU SEE ALL THESE GIRLS POSTING ON
HIS WALL, YOU MAY RETHINK THAT SPECIAL DATE
YOU HAVE PLANNED
dans le rêve's: flickr

8. PEOPLE EVEN
USE
FACEBOOK TO
END
RELATIONSHIPS
AFTER A
RELATIONSHIP
ENDS, PEOPLE
STILL USE
FACEBOOK TO
CHECK UP ON
THEIR EX AND
SEE WHETHER
HE OR SHE HAS
MOVED ON

9. FACEBOOK PROFILES ALLOW US TO BRAND
OURSELVES, LETTING OTHERS KNOW PERSONAL
INFO LIKE OUR RELATIONSHIP STATUS, OUR
HOBBIES, AND FAVOURITE MOVIES - ALLOWING
PEOPLE TO UNDERSTAND WHO WE ARE
Pink Sherbet Photography: flickr

10. WE CAN ALL ADMIT TO CREEPING OUR
FRIENDS’ CUTE FRIENDS PROFILES,
FANTASIZING ABOUT THE POSSIBILITY OF
SENDING THAT FIRST MESSAGE OR RUNNING
INTO THEM OFFLINE
IYLIAAA: flickr

11. Michael D. Dunn: flickr
ONE THING FACEBOOK CANNOT DO IS
PROTECT YOUR ANONYMITY

12. WOULD YOU PREFER BEING ABLE TO ACCESS PEOPLE
OUTSIDE OF YOUR SOCIAL NETWORK, OR PREFER
BEING ABLE TO CHECK OUT THE PROFILE OF THE
FRIEND OF A FRIEND WHO IS HITTING ON YOU?

13. BUT WHAT ARE THE DOWNFALLS
OF DATING THROUGH
FACEBOOK?
SashaW: flickr

14. OVERANALYZING WILL DRIVE YOU CRAZY
Ferdi’s - World: flickr

15. OneEighteen: flickr
HE POSTED ON
YOUR WALL 4
TIMES THIS WEEK,
IS HE INTO YOU?
ARE HIS STATUS
UPDATES ABOUT
CUTE GIRLS
SOMETHING TO
BE WORRIED
ABOUT? HOW
COME HE HASN’T
POKED ME BACK
EVEN THOUGH
HE’S BEEN
ONLINE?

16. YOU SEE ALL THE ACTION YOUR EX
IS GETTING
Brandon Christopher Warren: flickr

17. bored-now:flickr
RELATIONSHIPS AND BREAKUPS ARE PUBLIC

18. IT IS A RECORD THAT CONTAINS EVERY
RELATIONSHIP MISTAKE YOU’VE EVER
MADE
Jody Art: flickr

19. Xelcise: flickr
ON A POSITIVE NOTE, FACEBOOK DOES HAVE
WONDERFUL SOCIAL FILTERING CAPABILITIES
YOU ARE ABLE TO SEARCH A POTENTIAL DATE, SEE IF
YOU HAVE MUTUAL FRIENDS AND ASK THAT MUTUAL
FRIEND TO SET YOU UP

20. WITH SO MANY SCAMS AND CON ARTISTS OUT
THERE THESE DAYS, WE FIND OURSELVES OFTEN
SEEKING REFERRALS FROM FRIENDS AND FAMILY FOR
GOOD DOCTORS, GOOD HAIRDRESSERS AND EVEN
GOOD RESTAURANTS
D_P_R: flickr

21. ... SO WHY WOULDN’T WE SEEK REFERRALS FOR
QUALITY DATES?
Nasdreas: deviantART

22. HOW DID WE
EVER FORM
RELATIONSHIPS
BEFORE
FACEBOOK
Zellaby: flickr

23. kevindooley: flickr
WEBSITES USED
Dating in the ‘Facebook Era’ http://www.examiner.com/la-in-los-angeles/dating-
the-facebook-era
Facebook Ignites Old Flames http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerIndex?
id=8638220
How Facebook Has Changed Relationship Dynamics http://theneave.com/how-
facebook-has-changed-relationship-dynamics/
5 Ways Facebook Changed Dating (For the Worse) http://mashable.com/
2010/04/10/facebook-dating/
10 Tips for ‘Retrosexing’ on Facebook http://www.switched.com/2009/10/19/10-
tips-for-retrosexing-on-facebook/

24. Daisy blue 1: flickr
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