Facebook and Dating

Patricia Hrazdilkova

Students here at the school break up more and more using Facebook.

Students that have been broken up with through Facebook are outraged. Taylor Newman, a grade twelve student here atElmira, calls it “juvenile” and “cowardly”, and she was not the only one to say that people who dump over Facebook are just “hiding behind their computers”.

“People are relying too much on technology,” says Newman.“It’s pathetic if you can’t talk face to face,” adds Emily Siroky, another grade twelve student at Elmira. “Especially if it’s someone you’re supposedly dating.”

Áine Davis and Taylor Newman demonstrate a mock break up

However, not all students share this view. There are those who say they would rather not deal with the emotional affair that is breaking up.

“I’d rather be broken up with over Facebook than to my face,” claims Shawnee Murray, grade 12. “I wouldn’t want him to see me cry.”

But is this such a great thing? Facebook is becoming a barrier to our emotions. Students can now date and break up without as much as feeling a thing.  

“I couldn’t face him,” says Rachel A Martin, grade twelve. She claims that it was much easier to dump her ex-boyfriend through facebook, not as painful when she didn’t need to see his reaction.“It got rid of the emotion.”

Áine Davis, grade 12, states that this is just what our world is becoming, us living through our technology.

“I think it’s just the way of the future,” she says. “People just need to get over it!”