'Sub-Spotifying': How To Use Spotify To Get Dates
"I think I sub-Spotified Andrew today."
My friend Erin barely looked up from her menu the other night as she confessed this to me, uttering the word "sub-Spotified" as if it was, well, a word. A trend. A thing.
"Explain," I urged.
Erin went on to tell me about Andrew, a guy she met on the
At this point, the two are virtually at each other's fingertips. First, they became
At best, it's flirting. At worst, it's reinforcement that whatever you posted had actually been noticed, or read, or looked at. When two people who are signed up to access each other's goings-on in cyberspace, and both are frequent posters, you just tend to learn things.
It's a tale as old as time. Or at least, the last few years.
But sub-Spotifying? That's a new one. (The term stems from "subtweeting," or the act of tweeting about someone without tagging their Twitter user name in the message.
Recently, Andrew and Erin followed each other on
He did.
"We G-chatted about it," she told me, referring to the Google Talk instant messaging service. "And then we made plans for this weekend, but I felt like a ruse. Like, here's one more game we can all play to get someone's attention so we can avoid making the first move."
"I sub-spotified," she sighed, "and that's not even a thing."
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