Results tagged “single” from Birmingham Mail - Technobabble

MODERN dating in the digital instant age.

Young people today face some tricky decision making thanks to the ubiquity of online social networking sites, making going out with someone a process fraught with even more uncertainty.

For example: At what point do you update your Facebook relationship status? Too soon might seem presumptuous and needy - wait too long and you seem disinterested.

In order to gain insight into this, I interviewed a young colleague who, as Jane Austen, might put it, is 'out' in society (although as a journalist he's not in possession of a good fortune).

His basic take was that he wouldn't change it from 'single' until he absolutely had to - and commented that it was considered 'bad form' for the man to change his first: "Always let the bird do it".