As one who last professed true love in the previous century, it's hard for me to understand why people post cute, cuddly messages about their nearest and most expensive on Facebook.
You know the sort of thing: "My gorgeous wife just bought me a red toothbrush." Or: "My new boyfriend's smile makes my heart sing like Engelbert Humperdinck."
It's hardly: "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach, when feeling out of sight."
Still, I assumed that in the world of openness and connectedness, these love postings were de rigueur.
And yet research from dating site Zoosk appears to suggest that the objects of these messages don't like them at all.
I am lovingly grateful to the Social Times for directing me to this startling discovery.
For this research shows that 78 percent of people would rather get a private, intimate love text than a public love posting on Facebook or Twitter.
It appears from these numbers that people's greatest concern is the reaction of co-workers who might see these postings.
This I can entirely understand. I once sent flowers to the girl of my moment. She was, quite naturally, angry. For I had sent them to her office.
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