How many emails does it take...

April 24, 2007 9:55 PM

I'm looking for an article I read online a few years ago. It mentioned how many emails, instant messages and phone calls it takes to equal one in-the-flesh date, such as "it takes one email conversation or 1 hour of instant messaging to equal one date". Help me find it!!!
posted by damnjezebel to human relations (4 comments total)

I've never heard of it, but I really hope you are not hoping to take this kind of advice seriously! It sounds ludicrous!
posted by loiseau at 5:03 PM on April 25, 2007

I can't imagine any amount of electronic communication that could substitute for face time.
posted by pjern at 6:22 PM on April 25, 2007

Geez guys, nowhere did she say she believed it! She just wants to know where the article is!

I seem to recall reading something similar, only this one was like, 3 months of cyberdating equal one year of real-life dating... so cyberdating was a lot faster. I may have read that in a book though... it's been so long I can't remember.
posted by IndigoRain at 8:01 PM on April 25, 2007

Thanks, Indigo. No, I don't believe it. I was merely having a discussion about this with a friend and she was interested in the article.
posted by damnjezebel at 1:58 PM on April 26, 2007