Thanks to the NYTime’ Julia Heffernan for a fabulous look at the not so virtual intersection of relationship and technology:
I’m starting to think that Internet romances, including Mark Sanford’s, are not romances between people at all. They’re affairs with the Internet. Watch people who are newly in love, especially any kind of love that requires that the participants keep stealthy and apart, and they’re all over their iPhones and Palm Pres. It’s P.D.A. with P.D.A.’s. Romance seems to have become an online multiplayer fantasy-adventure game, no less thrilling than World of Warcraft, and open to all ages. Apparently you’re never too old to relish using special screen names to send cryptic messages on secret decoder devices.
It’s best when your significant other does the WOW-playing as well. Unless it’s raid time and she doesn’t want to get off of your computer.