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Love Brewed On Social Networks | Inspired By The ‘Facebook Marriage’ I Attended

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You never know where you will meet your loved one. It seems the latest ‘meet me there’ birthing of love is on social network sites chief among them—-Facebook.

While many a romantic relationship can trace its way back to Facebook, so too can many trace their demise. Yes, people do meet on social networks but the relationship ends in a virtual world….But to the extent of marriage?

I attended a marriage ceremony over the weekend where the couples’ love brewed on Facebook. My friend was very hesitant to say where they met because of cynical remarks she may get so initially she concocted a very nice story of meeting him on a bus…but the truth came out eventually. So, it started as befriending, chatting, meeting face to face, starting a relationship…then marriage. Nice!

The sense of intimacy that a network like Facebook will allow for with a total stranger is an ideal solution for an introvert. The only challenge will be how to sustain such when eventually it’s time to transit to a face to face status. There are instances where the ‘nice, cute, sexy’ person on Facebook, turned out to be someone who happened to be favoured by the lenses of a camera (they are photogenic) but just ‘unsavoury’ to behold in real life.

Sometimes, the online personality is different from the offline capacity! This is the part anyone willing to have a relationship on the social media wings would have to sort out – letting the potential partner know the real you before meeting so that hopes are not dashed.

When it comes to the formation, sustenance and even dissolution of relationships, the role of social networks is a central one. We find a potential mate and we stalk the person online by checking his or her comments and when last a status was updated.

The digital togetherness these platforms provide for couples, especially those in long-distance relationships, is rich enough to lubricate the relationship. Those days when long-distance relationships were endangered are gone.

Some people also blamed social networks when young married couples are going through a divorce. Reportedly, it encourages people to perpetuate infidelity and extra-marital activities on a virtual platform. That is where infidelity starts and the place where it is found out.

Very soon, there will be a new generation that will know nothing of how difficult it once was to woo a lady, given the social media assistance there are now.

My friend’s marriage is one success story of love brewed on a social network. As I left the ceremony, I thought to myself ‘it’s really time to spread my wings far to social networks (Facebook), my luck might just shine there…..and when I get a kid (a son preferably), his middle name will be Facebook – but come to think of it, the name is trademarked.



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7 thoughts on “Love Brewed On Social Networks | Inspired By The ‘Facebook Marriage’ I Attended”

  1. Seriously what planet are you from because your friend met her partner on a social network your encouraging people to do the same lets see how long it will last

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    • @Oheneba miyagi, A marriage that will end in divorce will end in divorce no matter how or where they met. What is important is that you find the right man. The God given partner is all that one needs to make a marriage work. With God as the foundation of any marriage, it is very hard for the enemy to penetrate it for destruction. I met my man on facebook, and we are married. I have never been happier in any relationship as I am now. The best thing about this man is that he is a strong man of God, and very humble. There are good men out there of the social network, and when God says that is where you will find your partner, that is where you find him/her. I have seen and known marriages that started on a social network sites, and they are the best ones. Marriage is all about trust, and understanding. I am not encouraging anyone to be on the social network with the hopes of finding a partner, but just being open minded that God can place your life time partner anywhere and that includes on the social network sites.

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  2. the days when the internet was an unknown scary place are long gone. today, the internet is the best thing that ever happened to us. imagine how much time we spend online? it’s normal to meet people and fall in love.
    miyagi, just pray you meet the right person. don’t condemn it if you don’t understand it.
    unless you yourself are a very bad person online why would you assume only bad people are online?

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    • @sister girl, thank you for your heart warming message so because I disagree it makes me a “bad person” In my opinion, you must not make a decision to get married until you’ve had considerable time with each other in each other’s physical presence. I think it’s very unwise to decide to get married when all you’ve had is online contact because it’s a virtual world and not the real world. You need time with each other before you make the decision to get married. I don’t mean just a weekend or two or three dates. If you think it’s going to lead to marriage, you need to rearrange your geography so that the two of you can spend some time together and get to know each other. ( did those two couples do that?) Then you can make an intelligent decision about whether to get married or not to get married.

      But on they otherside I believe there is a problem with making initial contact with a person from any online source. Where I think the problem lies, is with the concept that two people can truly get to know someone online. Its a virtual world, not reality. I think over time we have lost sight of the difference and have come to believe that interacting with someone via the internet is the same as interacting with them in person.

      I think that it is quite possible to find the right person for you via the internet, however I think that to truely know if you have found the right one, you must spend real time with them and develope a relationship over time In Person. Of course anyone can take a shot in the dark and only rely on your ‘online relationship’ to know a person, and there are those out there that have gone on to have successfull marriages, but ask yourself this question Sistergirl is the rest of your life really worth the risk?

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