Offline Lover
Help! My fiancée demands that I show her more attention online.
Posted Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2012, at 11:09 AM
Illustration by Robert Neubecker.
This week, Farhad Manjoo and Emily Yoffe debate the question: Are couples obligated to interact via social media, or is face-to-face contact more than enough? In this week’s podcast, the letter writer’s fiancée is dissatisfied with the level of attention he shows her online.
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Farhad Manjoo is Slate's technology columnist and the author of True Enough: Learning To Live in a Post-Fact Society. You can email him at farhad.manjoo@slate.com and follow him on Twitter.
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