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On Online Public Display Of Affection by destante(f): 2:08pm On Sep 27, 2014
Many lovers get engrossed in their relationship, so much that it becomes quite difficult for them to hold back their amorous feelings for each other within the confines of their own ideal love world. As such, they put out the glamour of their relationships on their various social media accounts (twitter, Facebook, nairaland) to express better the spill over of their romantic feelings.
Now, I am not talking about online amorous chitchats where the persons involved usually just play out to have fun but haven't really met or had anything to do together in reality. Instead, I am referring to relationships that started in real life, or those that started online and eventually made things real.
A weird drama played out yesterday on the popular micro blog, twitter, where things turned awry between those involved. Apparently as they washed their dirty linens in public and reeled out some information, a couple who had always displayed their affection using their twiticons and bio had made real life contacts and a lot had gone down between them. Yes a whole lot! cheesy
A third party who is a lady, got caught in unhealthy jealousy over the couple's PDA and relationship and decided to have her way. The two ladies probably had some beef and the jealous one took on their relationship. No relationship is perfect, the girlfriend had made some mistakes which the jealous lady would now use against her. To save you every other awry detail, right there in our faces, nude pictures of the lady in the relationship littered the blogosphere. I could only imagine the psychological impact that must have had on her as a lady.
Some couples get involved in online PDA just to pour out the excesses of their genuine intimate feelings in sincerity. Others do it to attract undue attention. There is another class that use it as a facade over their insecurity- that yes, my man or woman is taken, don't touch! cheesy
Some observers on the microblog opined that it is best to keep one's relationship private to avoid such quagmire. Others maintained that a relationship that was destined to crash would crash, whether displayed publicly or not.
So dear nairalanders, do you think PDA does more bad than good to a relationship or it is simply harmless? Where should the line be drawn if one must get involved in such?

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Re: On Online Public Display Of Affection by Nobody: 2:13pm On Sep 27, 2014
I'm indifferent to PDAs online or not
Re: On Online Public Display Of Affection by zizazizu: 2:18pm On Sep 27, 2014
The only place PDA is cool to me is Nairaland. There is censorship here and retweets and the like is non-existent. Elsewhere, mehn, no. Except if we are getting married that week. Too many haters out there. Too many who want to be in the middle of your business.

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Re: On Online Public Display Of Affection by Dabiller: 2:24pm On Sep 27, 2014
For me PDAs shud be harmles but as it has bn put here, it can get ugly if it z not handled with care and to just attract the wrong people. Ladies too shud b careful wit wat dey let out in their relatnshps. Diz is a lesson.
Re: On Online Public Display Of Affection by dejt4u(m): 2:33pm On Sep 27, 2014
If it is PDA, m sorry i dnt have anything to say/write.. Call me wen u gt to matter of PDP
Re: On Online Public Display Of Affection by Desewahosh: 2:33pm On Sep 27, 2014
Online or not, I don't do pda.
Re: On Online Public Display Of Affection by Nobody: 2:36pm On Sep 27, 2014
PDA online is totally ridiculous and absurd. A No, No. But offline, I'm very much okay with it. Holding hands and little pecks are really cute but aside from this, other acts of affection should be private.

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Re: On Online Public Display Of Affection by Dabiller: 2:49pm On Sep 27, 2014
zizazizu: The only place PDA is cool to me is Nairaland. There is censorship here and retweets and the like is non-existent. Elsewhere, mehn, no. Except if we are getting married that week. Too many haters out there. Too many who want to be in the middle of your business.
but tinz can get bad anywhere.Dia r haterz everywhere including nairaland.

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Re: On Online Public Display Of Affection by destante(f): 2:58pm On Sep 27, 2014
dejt4u: If it is PDA, m sorry i dnt have anything to say/write.. Call me wen u gt to matter of PDP
Lol I see what you did. But this is not a politics section tongue
Re: On Online Public Display Of Affection by Tallesty1(m): 3:01pm On Sep 27, 2014
I like this.
Re: On Online Public Display Of Affection by Boyedex: 3:16pm On Sep 27, 2014
Those couple were just careless IMO, things could not have necessarily gone that bad. How did the nuudes get to the hands of the hater in the first place undecided
Re: On Online Public Display Of Affection by zizazizu: 3:19pm On Sep 27, 2014
Dabiller: but tinz can get bad anywhere.Dia r haterz everywhere including nairaland.

At least there are mods here where if things ever turn nasty, can delete and remove both post(s) and post-er(s). Out there, it is the wild wild west

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Re: On Online Public Display Of Affection by MisterLongman(m): 3:31pm On Sep 27, 2014
Twitter has always been a fuji house of commotion......... Online PDA on twitter na OYO, because the bad bellus united can't wait to see the day the story will go awry...... Online PDA is very risky on a social platform but its even more dangerous on twitter and IG, I can't allow some viperous vultures to feed on my case abeg
Re: On Online Public Display Of Affection by Dabiller: 3:33pm On Sep 27, 2014
zizazizu:
At least there are mods here where if things ever turn nasty, can delete and remove both post(s) and post-er(s). Out there, it is the wild wild west
haha you are right. But atimes before mods take actions, a damage culd have bn done. It is good to stay carefully everywhere.

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Re: On Online Public Display Of Affection by zizazizu: 3:36pm On Sep 27, 2014
Dabiller: haha you are right. But atimes before mods take actions, a damage culd have bn done. It is good to stay carefully everywhere.
No be lie!
Re: On Online Public Display Of Affection by Puvor: 3:50pm On Sep 27, 2014
quiet interesting and thoughtful op. But i dont av problems with pda.
Re: On Online Public Display Of Affection by Tymax(m): 4:11pm On Sep 27, 2014
If only people would restrain themselves especially when emotions are high.

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Re: On Online Public Display Of Affection by ronald4lif(m): 4:23pm On Sep 27, 2014
I don't like flaunting my private life on any social platform, it's private and should remain so.
Re: On Online Public Display Of Affection by dytbabe: 4:35pm On Sep 27, 2014
I love PDA so much
A grt fan of it
Bt online? Na
Well I don't do social networks except NL

All these e badu belle ppl go jst dey go chant incantations for behind u

Till date, I didn't find out why Goldieluks was beefing me, guessed I had flirted with her man grin grin grin grin
Re: On Online Public Display Of Affection by Aitee1: 4:46pm On Sep 27, 2014
To me I feel people that display affection online are kids


Or mostly they are just flirts

Serious and matured minds knows where and how to display affection

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Re: On Online Public Display Of Affection by naijaboiy: 4:57pm On Sep 27, 2014
The world is becoming very technical and people tend to move with the pace in which it's advancing...

Nowadays,,85% of young people cannot do without social network...their lives depend on it.

They eat social network,,sleep social network and even dream social network. It has become a very essential part of many people's life,,really...and so I don't blame most young people when they display affection online.

We have many people who meet and date online,,though they may never see because of distance,,displaying their affection online is the only possible way for them to show that they are hooked with someone else.

Permit me to say that there may be a time when couples will do their engagement online(through skype),,introduction online and even have their wedding online..

The world is becoming a global village and this social network has eaten deep into the social life of we young ones...

Doing without it is like a taboo.

My 2Cedis

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Re: On Online Public Display Of Affection by MizMyColi(f): 5:05pm On Sep 27, 2014
The OP and the comments I've read above couldn't be farther from the truth.

If I were to date a NL'er today, as in, for real dating, no one'd know about it.
Not with the things I've seen lately.
Only my best of the best buddies'd be aware, and they'll only know when I'm sure that we're really serious about each other.

This is a personal opinion and I'm not saying it's wrong to think other wise.

Different strokes, Different folks.

Even when I see such acts as sheer naivety, I try not to judge/condemn them. The least I can do is either wish them well or give them grace by shutting up (including my thoughts) and minding my own business.

Ultimately, it is what it is.

Signed: Mizmycoli (f)

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Re: On Online Public Display Of Affection by djeezy(m): 5:06pm On Sep 27, 2014
I'm a very private person when it comes to my relationship. I don't go shoving it in people's faces. Most people will go gushing on bbm I love my boo, I miss my boo just to attract silly attention. WE know you love your boo ok!!! Howz that suppose to be my bizness. BUT if you decide to do it offline, cool. I got no problem with that, you can even kiss in the cinema. Lol. Well well well.
Re: On Online Public Display Of Affection by Jennydoris(f): 5:09pm On Sep 27, 2014
PDA!
I have not seen anything good about it because so many people now fake it and some have given it a total different meaning from what it's meant for. You will see a girl with an update around 10.pm on Friday saying "having some fun with my boo" with all tongues out only for her to update by Saturday around 10.am "men, are wicked creature". All follow for PDA abii? Who is fooling who. Even married men in real life now fake being single on social network and married women fake being single too. No girl is engaged again. It's either she is single, engaged(only God knows oo) or she is in a complicated relationship. And guys too, they are always single even the ones that are married with kids. Some use it as a show off. I pity my fellow girls that believes in a girls PDA that says she is engaged. I only believe such crap until I see your wedding pics or anything of that sort. Even wedding pics can now be faked. In fact some or if not all updates on social network concerning dating and relationship are wash wash.
Re: On Online Public Display Of Affection by destante(f): 5:30pm On Sep 27, 2014
naijaboiy: The world is becoming very technical and people tend to move with the pace in which it's advancing...

Nowadays,,85% of young people cannot do without social network...their lives depend on it.

They eat social network,,sleep social network and even dream social network. It has become a very essential part of many people's life,,really...and so I don't blame most young people when they display affection online.

We have many people who meet and date online,,though they may never see because of distance,,displaying their affection online is the only possible way for them to show that they are hooked with someone else.

Permit me to say that there may be a time when couples will do their engagement online(through skype),,introduction online and even have their wedding online..

The world is becoming a global village and this social network has eaten deep into the social life of we young ones...

Doing without it is like a taboo.

My 2Cedis
Sorry mister, your 10cedis talked about those who don't get to meet which I exempted in my op. All that boils to having online fun. It was noted but deliberately exempted. undecided
Re: On Online Public Display Of Affection by naijaboiy: 5:35pm On Sep 27, 2014
destante: Sorry mister, your 10cedis talked about those who don't get to meet which I exempted in my op. All that boils to having online fun. It was noted but deliberately exempted. undecided
It doesn't change the fact that most young people have allowed social network to be a very essential part of their life and as such they display affections even when they meet and see everyday... undecided

The part which you exempted in your op is just a cited example to buttress my points clearly undecided
Re: On Online Public Display Of Affection by destante(f): 5:44pm On Sep 27, 2014
naijaboiy:
It doesn't change the fact that most young people have allowed social network to be a very essential part of their life and as such they display affections even when they meet and see everyday... undecided

The part which you exempted in your op is just a cited example to buttress my points clearly undecided
What example was exempted in this?

destante: Now, I am not talking about online amorous
chitchats where the persons involved usually just
play out to have fun but haven't really met or
had anything to do together in reality. Instead, I
am referring to relationships that started in real
life, or those that started online and eventually
made things real.
Your 20cedis is noted anyway.
Re: On Online Public Display Of Affection by naijaboiy: 5:52pm On Sep 27, 2014
destante: What example was exempted in this?

Your 20cedis is noted anyway.
I made my humble opinion,,you shouldn't bother yourself if it doesn't go your way undecided

High Blood pressure kills you know smiley

And you're too young for that kiss
Re: On Online Public Display Of Affection by destante(f): 6:01pm On Sep 27, 2014
naijaboiy:
I made my humble opinion,,you shouldn't bother yourself if it doesn't go your way undecided

High Blood pressure kills you know smiley

And you're too young for that kiss
Awwn young man. Its a topic for discussion and its nothing personal. smiley I was making you see what you rushed not to see. wink
Re: On Online Public Display Of Affection by naijaboiy: 6:07pm On Sep 27, 2014
destante: Awwn young man. Its a topic for discussion and its nothing personal. smiley I was making you see what you rushed not to see. wink
Ok,,coolies then cool
Re: On Online Public Display Of Affection by iceberylin(m): 6:22pm On Sep 27, 2014
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Re: On Online Public Display Of Affection by Tymax(m): 7:03pm On Sep 27, 2014
dytbabe: I love PDA so much
A grt fan of it
Bt online? Na
Well I don't do social networks except NL

All these e badu belle ppl go jst dey go chant incantations for behind u

Till date, I didn't find out why Goldie luks was beefing me, guessed I had flirted with her man grin grin grin grin
Ɨƚa..Ɨƚa..Ɨƚa.. Why do ladies keep mentioning bad belle people? Which bad belle people? It's the same to me whether Online and Public. And I don't like it at all. Highest I fit do na to hold hand abi to hug but kiss? Ah, or to dey write poem for twitter or facebook? No way.

My ex GF wey I dey use do DP for BBM, after we break up people just dey ask me say question. After all my "fumble", omo I just humble.

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