With the growth and popularity of Facebook these days, it is about time you start hearing about the lost loves rekindled or the new flames that arise out of the social networking sites. As we all know the majority of Facebook users are now over the age of 35 and some of them are looking for love. They are able to find old friends from college or even as far back as some of their old high school boyfriends. They search for them, friend them, message them, and then marry them?!
I was watching Good Morning America, yes I watch it every morning-it’s how I stay up to date, and they had this couple on there about how they used to date back in high school and then many years later found each other on Facebook and eventually got married. It actually all started as a dare from a friend to Facebook message the first boy she had ever kissed. He messaged her back and the romance took off from there. There is a name for all this now called retrosexuals. The term means people who are reaching back into their own lives and reconnecting with someone from their past via a social networking site. I think Facebook is a better way to find someone from your past or for a relationship. Think about it, you have to friend request them; they in return have to accept your friend request and then you can start chatting. It’s not like MySpace or some other site where just anyone can see your profile and start talking to you. I mean you sign up for those and then you wonder how you get so many creeps in your life! It doesn’t always happen like that but I see Facebook as a safer way to network with people for future relationships. Also, finding someone from your past is a pretty easy thing as well on Facebook. You can search for them by where they went to school, what town they may be in or you might even find them on accident through a friend you already have and they are friends with them.
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I recently have started looking for people from my past on Facebook and have found quite a few of them. It's really cool that almost everyone has Facebook, so it's almost guaranteed that people from my past have an account. I also have a MySpace, which sometimes comes in handy with those people who don't have Facebook accounts. I have my MySpace profile set to private, so people have to add me as a friend in order to see my profile, kind of like Facebook. I guess I've never thought of one or the other as safer. As long as my profile is private, I feel somewhat safe from internet stalkers.
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