Gadget Addicts Unite!

New Websites Let Technology Lovers Interact and Share Their Passion

By
Relationship Advice Expert April Masini

Q: Dear April Masini,

I love my iPod. I love my Blackberry. I love my Palm Pilot. There I said it -- I'm a technology addict! My family and even my boyfriend does not get it, but new websites I've stumbled on to has introduced me to people who share the same interest in gadgets as I do. I'm starting to form friendships online with people I've never met before. Is it normal to form relationships through online sites devoted to technology?

Sincerely,

Techno-Savvy 

A:

There's a website for everyone and for people who love websites -- and technology and tech gadgets, there are even more websites and ways to find out about newer websites. This new avenue has opened up a social world that other hobbies don't have. People who love technology have an edge on communicating, and they can find each other more easily, than, say, quilt collectors or scrapbookers. 

As a relationship expert, I've always held that like attracts like, and people who like tech gadgets are going to have A LOT in common with other tech gadget lovers. Websites about these technologies are like bars or parties or old fashioned courting venues for people who are looking for the latest in technology .... and maybe a little bit more. Say, in the way of relationships. 

The internet has changed relationships between everyone -- including female friends. There are still and always will be women who meet because of circumstance -- whether it's the workplace, the pre-school playground, or the cocktail party circuit that their own bosses, their husband's bosses -- or their neighbors host. 

However, it's easy to hone in on the kind of woman another woman wants as a friend, now, the same way it's easier for dates to hone in on what it is they want in a potential Mr. or Ms. Right. If a woman wants a friend who is a career woman without children, she is more able to find one on MySpace or Friendster. If she wants a friend to party with and go to clubs with, again, it's easy to hone in on what it is she wants. Sometimes women want to know what it's like to have kids or what it's like to be divorced, or what it's like to put a child up for adoption, or meet their own biological parents after decades, and they may look to chat with other like women on My Space or Friendster that they would normally not meet or want to reveal themselves to, in their "real lives." Rather than checking television show summaries to see who's on what talk shows in any given week, women can now find friends or people to chat with on friendship networks.  

Internet friendship and dating networks have made it much easier for anyone to find what they want -- whether it's something to buy on E-bay, a job, a travel ticket to a far off destination, a doctor, a date on another coast, or a friendship with a particular kind of woman.

April Masini -- nicknamed "the new millennium's Dear Abby" by the media, is author of the best-selling books Date Out Of Your League and Think & Date Like A Man, the two (just released) step-by-step dating and relationship manuals, Ideas for a Fun Date and Romantic Date Ideas, and the critically acclaimed dating and relationship online magazine www.AskApril.com.

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