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Warning: Some sections of this article are sarcastic in nature! :D 

Who said our generation could not understand love? I would have very contradictory views on this one. We belong to a generation which has taken love to a completely new level. We are in a relationship with our laptops, mobiles and tablets before anybody. We are loyal like never before. We even give so much of attention to our gadgets. Do you remember the last time you forgot to take phone or laptop while stepping out of your house? We can forget our anniversary date, but not the date when the warranty of our very precious gadgets expires. We are deeply and madly in love, first with our gadgets, and then with the person on the other side of our gadgets.

Let us just celebrate love online is the new mantra. Order a virtual cake, light virtual candles, gorge on delicious food (say, food porn) and voila, it’s a perfect date without the slightest of hindrances. The only hindrances here can be a slow internet connection.

With Valentine’s round the corner, one question that has always bugged us has resurfaced. Who is the one becoming rich because of the splurging every love struck couple indulges into? Gone are the days when a florist or chocolatier minted money out of peoples desires to commercially display love. It is the Photoshop experts (or so considered to be) who are doing amazingly great in their businesses by creating hideously creative virtual flowers and virtual chocolates. These merchandises now flood our Twitter tweets and Facebook timelines. It is best not to mention the Whatsapp groups, when it comes to sharing these pictures. Every Whatsapp group certainly has that one Romeo who will wish everybody with these virtual bouquets and chocolates. How considerate of those who remember all these days, isn’t it?

COBWEBS OF LIFE

Falling in love! *sigh*. Love is blind, we say, but what if you have never seen the person you fell head over heels for. I have heard so many people finding their soul mates over FB chats. You ask them how they fell for this person, an answer, comes as a slap- “his DP was so cute” shakes you up. A follow back on twitter is enough for some people to realize their true love for a virtual soul staring into some led screen, somewhere on the face of the earth.

Proposals now happen over Skype calls. Traveling across seven seas, fighting storms on the way, wading through the rivers to meet your love and propose is too passé. A hangout is so cool, right? Send her a diamond ring (virtual of course, if you had money to buy a real one you could have travelled as well), link all the possible sites that talk about the ring having exact specifications like the Kohinoor. And you have the girl. Getting married online is going to be the next big thing. All the wedding planners out there better hone their digital skills. RSVP to a real wedding is so last century will be the talk of town. Some years down the line weddings taking place at the click of a button will be a common scenario. And if anyone has to object the alliance, he/she should doesn’t matter the couple his problem before the couple agrees and accepts the terms and conditions of the alliance.

If getting into a relationship can be a matter of few clicks, few clicks more and you are out of it. I would say, in a way, we are also travelling back in time. Now that we do not have luxury of sending trained pigeons around, we float messages and status updates. One change in relationship status on your Facebook profile will invite attention like never before. “It is over” will be sufficient enough to tell the world how bruised your tiny little heart is. Also, do not forget those Emo images that would eat up the space on your wall after the heartbreak.

Feelings, indeed, are going virtual. Good or bad, we don’t know. The internet service providers, app makers, search engine operators are certainly happy about this transformation. We have no clue if the virtual world understands our feelings, but it is good to have these graphic experts to paint our emotions on the digital canvas. Emoticons suffice our need to express love. One wink here and one wink there, you have earned love. After all this winking, one poker faced emoticon and boom! You are out of those feelings.