BY Lux Alptraum
July 6, 2007
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Boinkology graduated college too long ago to really have experienced Facebook and its effects on dating (Friendster launched during our senior year), but apparently, the launch of social networking sites has changed the face of college dating.

We’ll give you a minute to absorb that fact.

Yeah, thanks to The Huntsville Times, we’re now aware that Facebook (and other social networking sites) has changed the way college students (and, um, everyone else? Everyone else with access to the Internet?) date. Instead of drunkenly hooking up at frat parties, they now drunkenly hook up at frat parties… and then go online to learn about each other.

Or something.

Do social networking sites suck the fun out of dating? Boinkology’s on the fence on this one. We like the way social networking sites have legitimized the cyberstalk (cause looking someone up on MySpace is way less creepy than Googling them), and we’ll openly admit to using them as a kind of screening process (an ugly MySpace page is an automatic dealbreaker). But who knows: maybe if we’d grown up in a simpler time, we’d currently be longing for the days when it took, like, four dates to realize that someone was a complete and total tool who can’t spell and really likes Mudvayne.

You know, just maybe.