In a recent interview for the French website OWNI, I hinted at how our information-intensive environment changes the way romantic relationships are created – and dissolved. Finding your significant other, as well as breaking up with him/her, becomes a cognitive task, as well as an emotional one. Consider Google, and how it can be used to either collect information about someone you just met at a party, or to passively stalk your ex. Love nowadays – as Cyrano de Bergerac would put it – is “a rose-dot on the ‘i’ of ‘I google you'”.
Title: I google you
Artist: Amanda Palmer
Lyrics: Neil GaimanI google you
late at night when I don’t know what to do
I find photos
you’ve forgotten
you were in
put up by your friends