BY Lux Alptraum
July 30, 2008
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What with Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Plurk, Vimeo, and whatever new 2.0-ey communications system the webkids have coming down the line, it’s become easier and easier to live in public: and for more than a few people, that means it’s become easier to date in public. Twittering details of first (and second, and third) dates, posting emotional updates about how in love they are… we’ve seen it all before (remember when it was called Jakob and Julia?).

But after enduring so many public break ups, we’re starting to wonder what, exactly, any of us gain from dating in public. Blogging about one’s sex life at least has the ability to titillate — but what does blogging one’s relationship give the world? And, perhaps more to the point: does making one’s intimate details (and we’re talking emotionally intimate, here) so completely public provide enough benefit to outweigh the potential (and sometimes inevitable) pain of living the more painful parts in public?

[Photo by jidnet]