I currently have just logged into my Facebook account and came upon a post that an acquaintance from college had put as their status: “I can’t believe I’m actually going to do a bloody Facebook poll: should Bob* and I get married? Why? Why not? Serious responses only please.”
Now, I’m into the whole collaboration/polling thing as the next person. (And I consider this to be a collaboration of reasons why/why not, I might be wrong in my viewing it as this) However, I think that is a life decision that is taking the whole collaboration of friends and acquaintances too far. While it may be good to poll friends before purchasing a new car (they might have/had the one you want and have useful information), I think deciding whether to marry a person needs to be a more face to face dialogue between the two parties involved and perhaps their families and/or closest friends, not the 600 people you added as your friend on Facebook that you might sort of know. I’d love to see what you all in the blogosphere think.
# end rant.
One reply on “Internet collaboration takes a wrong turn?”
That does seem to rather extreme. I don’t know the details of the situation, but the only rationalization I can think of is if the real question being asked is not whether they should actually spend the rest of their lives together, but whether marriage as an institution is the way to go. So it’s really a question of the merits/benefits of marriage…. but even then, a facebook poll??