I don't date guys that LOL

When I was out for brunch with a few girlfriends, I mentioned in passing that all of the boys i was currently going on dates with all had iPhones. Weird right? I immediately thought it was another thing to add to my Seinfeld Syndrome list which is currently: poor grammar, bad at settlers of catan or other strategy board games, cannot name 4 hockey players, call me dude, phlegm-y voices.. you know the ones that sound like they should cough and most importantly (seriously)... GUYS WHO USE LOL.

Today, after having some recent boy issues with lack of communication / abundance of ignoring since one of said boys recently lost their iPhone, I realized how incredibly frustrating it is to try and have any sort of relationship (serious or not) with someone who is sans smartphone and is unwired. That prompted me to tweet

would it be shallow to only date boys with iphones? elitist? or just seinfeld syndrome?
http://twitter.com/unbrelievable/status/2761201656

This started a discussion between me and andyarobertson:

@unbrelievable clearly it's because you want dudes who know what's awesome.

@unbrelievable plus you need to date someone who's phone has the capacity for crazy long novelesque drunk texts. ie. iPhone people like us.

I remember I was seeing a guy a few years ago, and he didn't have a blackberry. I did, and I wrote him a message (not realizing that the 1/2 2/2 thing at the top meant PAGES for losers without bbs) and it ended up being 3 pages long (read: 3 tweets). He immediately thought me to be a stalker and stopped speaking to me. Months pass, said boy sees me at a Jason Collett show, starts texting me "nice white shirt" (WHO IS THE FUCKING STALKER NOW CREEPO) after I definitely no longer had his number in my phone. Then he proceeds to apologize, as he now has a blackberry and now understands that I wasn't crazy. Does it come down to the phone, or maybe it really is the person behind the phone? Who is self centered enough to think of someone as being a stalker from merely sending 3 text messages back to back? Making excuses if you aren't into someone is one thing (this guy proceeded to ask me on dates after he saw me in his new found blackberry life), but get over yourself.

Insert andyarobertson comment tweet...

@unbrelievable has dating technologically advanced to the point we now pick matches on texting compatibility???

I honestly think in this day and age it has a lot of importance, as much as I hate to admit it. Someone that takes a day or two to reply to text messages would drive someone like me absolutely insane, as I am consistently texting. It's when the lines are blurred between neediness/stalking/crazy/etc (all these terms that men tend to over use) versus well connected, and these lines are blurred by egos, where it becomes an issue and an interference.

You need to establish the ground rules before hand (ie. don't update facebook, twitter etc while ignoring my text messages or you will get SHIT ON AND YOUR HEAD EATEN), and you need to maintain expectations. I mean, obviously when you first start dating someone its exciting and you want to talk all the time, and after awhile it's totally cool to cool it down a bit.. but texting daily 24/7 then disappearing? you better have a good excuse, an even better apology, and a hell of a lot of wine.

Call me high maintenance, call me crazy, call me a stalker... but how about just calling me well connected.