填空题 It wasn't so long ago that the idea of a college romance playing out online-for better or for worse-would have been deemed weird, nerdy, or just plain pathetic. 1 But then MySpace came along, and Facebook took over-and today, courtship has become a flurry of status messages, e-mail flirtation, and, not so uneommonly; breakups that play out publicly for all 400 of your not-so-closest friends. And while a Facebook split is clearly not the ideal, Katie Vojtko has been on the other side of it, too: she ended a recent romance through an e-mail-to which she never heard back. "It's not something I'm proud of," says the 22-year-old, who graduated in April. "But technology just makes dating so much easier."

• A. It's easier to approach each other, to talk casually, to get to know one another and feel out romantic potential without ever having to truly put themselves out there.
• B. "And you don't even have to be on the computer to engage in it."
• C. They can see where that person grew up, their political interests, whether they're "looking for a relationship" or only interested in" hooking up."
• D. As the thinking went, if you had to go to the Web to find a, mate, or break up with one, it must have meant you weren't capable of attracting anyone in the real world.
• E. Now a relationship may still begin by locking eyes across a crowded bar, but instead of asking for a phone number, the next step almost surely involves a Facebook friendship offer.
• F. David Hein zinger, a 24-year-old new-media specialist in New York, recently asked a girl hemet at a happy hour to dinner.