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"To which I can only chime in with one of my favorite Woody Allen quotes: &amp;quot;Don&amp;#x27;t knock masturbation; it&amp;#x27;s sex with someone I love.&amp;quot; I really dug Joanna&amp;amp;#8217;s post yesterday about dealing with the news that an ex is getting married. I recently experienced this myself, and like many of Joanna&amp;amp;#8217;s readers I learned about it via Facebook.She was my first real girlfriend, the first girl I ever kissed (at the ripe age of 16&amp;amp;#8212;I was a late bloomer) and the first person to break my heart. It was pretty intense in the way that only high school relationships can be. Since graduation we&amp;amp;#8217;ve exchanged a few emails and met once over Christmas break to catch up. I look back fondly on our time together and wish her nothing but the best. Still, my stomach dropped when I randomly checked her Facebook profile one day a few months ago and saw she was engaged. Would I have eventually heard about her engagement from a friend? Yes, but without Facebook I wouldn&amp;amp;#8217;t be visiting their wedding website and reading all about how they met at freshman orientation. Thanks to the Internet, we now find each other on Plenty of Fish, flirt over Gmail, break-up over YouTube and keep tabs on our exes via Facebook. I&amp;amp;#8217;ve always had a relatively healthy relationship with the Internet, but I&amp;amp;#8217;m beginning to wonder if I need to start setting some ground rules. Let&amp;amp;#8217;s just say that the (hilarious) South Park episode where the Internet disappears and everyone goes bonkers hit a little close to home. And I just bought an iPhone, which is like giving an alcoholic free refills at the bar. But I&amp;amp;#8217;m a dating blogger, damnit, and I still believe in love at first type. What&amp;amp;#8217;s the best/worst thing the Internet has ever done for you?"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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