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"A friend shared this hysterical article with me about a new app called BroApp (caution: the article has a bit of PG language). BroApp allows a guy to schedule pre-determined texts to his girlfriend so that he can hang out with his bros and not have to worry about her feeling unloved.  In theory, it&amp;#039;s not a bad idea. Wait, yes it is. It&amp;#039;s a bad idea. Much like the test subject in the article, getting randomly scheduled, impersonal texts from a guy I&amp;#039;m involved with would be off-putting in the extreme, and if he goes to all the trouble to personalize each scheduled text, then why bother scheduling at all? Just text me, dude. The only place I can see a guy really using this app is if he&amp;#039;s somewhere that he&amp;#039;s not supposed to be, and doesn&amp;#039;t want his girlfriend to find out. Texting &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m leaving the office now&amp;quot; at 9pm after you&amp;#039;ve previously called to tell her you&amp;#039;ll be working late would come in handy if you&amp;#039;re really at a bar with your buddies downing another beer. But then again, maybe I&amp;#039;m just old-fashioned. If you want to go out with your buddies, maybe you should just...oh, I don&amp;#039;t know...tell me so? As long as it&amp;#039;s not an every single night thing, there&amp;#039;s no problem. And if you&amp;#039;re having a great time with your buddies and don&amp;#039;t think to text me for three or four hours, I think I&amp;#039;ll manage to live somehow. I&amp;#039;m not in middle school anymore, y&amp;#039;know. It just makes me wonder what kind of guys think generic technology can replace genuine sentiment and what kind of girls are so needy that they can&amp;#039;t go a few hours without a text. Geez. Can&amp;#039;t we all do better than that? Sometimes, I feel like I&amp;#039;m definitely too old for this stuff. What about you? Do you think BroApp is a good idea? [Follow Ellie on Facebook and Twitter] "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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