
It’s been said that youth is wasted on the young. I don’t know if that’s true, but it’s certainly true that the millennials have changed the landscape of just about everything, from technology to consumerism to dating.
Take, for example, my awesome nephew. As a high school senior, his college selection process has been frustrating for me as a higher education marketer. I spend hours crafting well-worded e-mails to get my point across in as few words as possible. He hasn’t opened a single e-mail from a college, choosing instead to save them in a folder in case he wants to read them later.
He’s also recently gained a girlfriend, a designation I discovered via Facebook when his status changed to “in a relationship.”
Facebook has forever altered the landscape of relationship definition. No longer is one required to have “the talk” to determine coupledom. Rather, you simply search for the username of your beloved, and Facebook sends him a message to confirm that you are, in fact, in a relationship. That’s much less awkward than having your girlfriends track down the guy you’re dating during lunch to ask him if he’s into you. Now you know when all of his 500+ so-called friends know.
On the way to Fayetteville last night after the game, I asked Taylor about his new girlfriend. Evidently they were talking as friends and then they were “talking” and now she’s his girlfriend.
Huh? What’s the difference between talking and “talking”?
A lot evidently. No longer do teens “go together” like we did when I was in high school. Now they “talk.” But they talk as friends before the “talking” designation indicates their pre-relationship status.
Is there some sort of handout for this? I’m afraid I might be talking to someone and end up inadvertantly married.
The gist of it is this: you may start talking as friends, but then “the talk” leads to “talking.” Got that?
All the pics from the district championship are here.
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Okay, so what is next for the basketball schedule? We're up for a road trip! Hate to miss out on this......
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