A Tribute to Love in the Age of Social Media

by Greg Fitzgerald

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I followed @Lauren on Twitter

In hopes she’d tweet me back

I told @Anna that I wanted love

She said “There’s an app for that”

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I met @Kelly on Facebook

And poked her for a while

@Debbie found me using Google

I found her on Dogpile

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@Sarah had a YouTube hit

Lip-dubbing Miley Cyrus

@Ellie sent me Farmville gifts

That turned out to be a virus

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@Alyssa ran a music blog

And hipsters loved to comment

I subscribed to @Lindsey’s RSS

And somehow wound up on it

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@Tess was a Mayor on Foursquare

When I unseated her

@Ally posted links to Digg

So I retweeted her

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@Jen worked in social media

And search engine optimization

A friend request from lovely @Britt

Once caused me great elation

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@Elizabeth untagged our pics

She said I was a jerk

@BritneyVids was just a tease

But still Not Safe For Work

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@Mandy mentioned me in posts

And said our love was classic

And though @Megan linked to my content

She just wanted to drive traffic

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With 140 characters

I won the heart of @Jan

But @Katie’s online mailing list

Filled my inbox up with spam

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@Trisha at the agency

Worked with contextual ads

@Sandra loved to write new Wikis

On the latest sexual fads

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@Christina knew my login codes

She hacked my accounts, I bet

But I met @Maria in real life

Somehow without the Internet

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