Katie Vojtko had been dating her boyfriend for eight months. The two had met at a party at the University of Pittsburgh, where both of them were students. The attraction was instant: he asked Vojtko out, the two became a couple, things were good. But then one day Vojtko logged on to Facebook and noticed something funny: her “boyfriend” had changed his relationship status to “single.”
Dieses Beispiel zeigt, dass Social Media nicht nur unseren Umgang miteinander verändert, sondern auch, dass sich die Grenze zwischen privaten und öffentlichen Dingen verschiebt:
It’s made it easier to approach each other, to talk casually, to get to know one another and feel out romantic potential without ever having to truly put themselves out there. It’s made the dating process public, so that a breakup like Vojtko’s is followed by concern—or even blatant propositions.
So ist heutzutage potentiell alles immer public:
