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.