"We live in the generation of not being in love and not being together. But we sure make it like we're together. Cause we're scared to see each other with somebody else"

Our generation is just unbelievably different from any one before us. There are some positives and negatives to these societal changes. I am very thankful for the GPS. Driving is hard enough as it is. I couldn't imagine being on the highway trying to make sense of a map and calculating miles by looking at the little box next to the speedometer. Way too much work. A friend of mine recently introduced me to this app called LuLu. You basically hook it up to your facebook and it gives you rankings on guys your friends with. You're also able to search different guys and get rankings on them. The rankings on a scale of 1-10 and their based on personality, looks, income levels, and general lifestyle information. People that have supposedly dated them, hooked up with them, or befriended them are the ones that make the rankings. Their not long paragraphs describing the relationship they've had with them, but hashtags that state things like "#ObssessedwithMom #CheaperThanABigMac, #RespectsWomen, #KinkyInTheRightWays so on and so forth. It's very fun to look through different people and see what people have said about them.

In all honesty, I initially thought the entire thing was wrong. We hate it when guys rank us based on features and stuff, but here we are doing the same thing to them. I know that you can't explain who I am through a series of silly hash tags, so why should I believe that these hashtags tell the truth about the guys Lulu talks about. Of course, after 24 hours I let go of those opinions and downloaded it. I may or may not have read posts about a couple crushes I've had and did a happy dance when people I liked didn't have a page. No page means they didn't hook up with anyone random or hurt anyone enough for them to write a nasty virtual review about them later. The previous sentence is our generations definition of a winning guy. It's so sad.

The same night I was introduced to Lulu, I watched the notebook with a friend. She had never seen it before, and I personally believe it's every woman's right of passage to see the notebook. It shows you how beautiful life can be for those who are lucky enough to find true love. Noah is the perfect gentlemen who treats Allie like a queen. He stands by her no matter how many times life gets in their way. He's a dream. I started thinking about what hashtags Noah's page would have. He would definitely have #CheaperThanABigMac because he wasn't the most well of of men. He would have #TooCoolForSchool, because he never went to college. On paper, Noah was kind of a loser. He wasn't educated and had a terrible job. He had a couple slow tendencies like the stuttering when he was young. He was a loner and didn't seem to have many friends, so there would be #loner or whatever creative way they would phrase that. After reading his page you would be lead to think that he wasn't worth giving a chance. None of those hashtags say anything about who the person truly is. There are some things that can only be learned from getting to know a person enough to realize that all these bad qualities make the person who they are. If it wasn't for all those bad qualities, the good qualities wouldn't shine as bright. So although Lulu is fun, it's shouldn't be the end all be all. Same goes for twitter, instagram, and all these social networks. They tell you about a person, but not who they are.