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If you have seen He’s Just Not Into You, you would remember that scene where they mention that Myspace is the new bootycall. Is it really though? Facebook has become the biggest social media website with the most vistors more than Myspace, and we see a monstrous growth of Twitter.With short quick updates and a limit to the messages you send, twitter has become what I think a future to bootycalls.

What is Twitter? Twitter is a social media website that asks one question: “what are you doing?” Answers also known as tweets must be under 140 characters in length and can be sent via mobile texting, instant message, or the web. You can connect with individuals from other networks of even follow your friends and see what they are doing on a day to day basis. You can send messages to other people under 140 characters as well. With the collaboration of twitter and cellphones, people can basically update… every single second!

The funny thing about Twitter is literally you can update anything that you’re doing – you can say that you are hanging out with your friend at Cactus Club right now or even say that you are watching a certain TV show at home. Your followers will know what you are doing at all times if you are a consistent twitterer.

With facebook, it’s much more easier to get to know a person more as facebook can reveal much more information about a person including the friends they have, applications, wall posts, pictures, etc. Twitter has that as well but in a much smaller capacity. You can post links to articles that you think is interesting or just reply to other people’s tweets.  I personally think facebook and twitter goes hand in hand – facebook gives you a general sense of the person, whereas twitter allows you to know their daily habits.

Why do I think Twitter is the new booty call? First of all, let’s trace back to the 1990s (oh so long ago) where booty calls were mainly based with phonecalls. A booty call – this is summarized from wikipedia, yes you can find booty call from wikipedia – is mainly a telephone call, other communication, or visitation with the sole intention of engaging sexual behaviors. We all must have experienced booty calls before whether you engaged it or if someone else have encouraged you to it.This usually happens when a traditional romantic date is unlikely usually late in the evening, after midnight, etc. First, we have phonecalls, then we evolutionized to emails, and then text messages.

Twitter’s format of short quick updates allow the other person to see when you are at any moment. Particularly if they can see where they are through their blackberry or iphone, they can choose to send you a message. Funny thing is, they don’t really have to elaborate much cause tweets are only allowed 140 characters max! For example, if your tweet is “sitting at home, watching sex and the city – loving carrie’s shoes!” – the other person might see it an perhaps call you, text you, or tweet you.

This also urges me to talk about the question of the disappearance of courtship? Many girls say that they don’t mind bootycalls – cause it’s just for fun and there are no feelings attached. That’s one way of seeing it, another way of seeing it might be why waste the time of having some fun with some random guy when the love of your life might just be around the corner. If he doesn’t want to engage in a relationship wtih you but still want the physical benefits, does he really respect you then? Yeah a booty call can become a relationship – but how often does that really happen? SERIOUSLY. Furthermore, people have stopped asking others out face to face or through phone calls. It’s so much easier for a guy to text you or message you to ask you out. Sometimes I do miss the old traditional courtship. It seems that has faded – have we accept this technological courtship as our future?

P.S. I’m also adding this youtube video on here just cause I think it’s adorable and so funny!