FACETIME DATE

Two people meet on Facetime for a virtual date after matching on Tinder.

FaceTime Date began as an imagined conversation between two people who met on Tinder, had been conversing for a few weeks, and decided to video chat for the first time.

“Do they really want to know how I’m doing? Nah. Just tell them you’re great.”

When I began this piece, I had no idea what the characters looked like, let alone what journey they would go on.

FaceTime Date

As I thought more about my own experience in virtual dating during quarantine, I recalled moments of masking my own emotional turmoil through deflection with strangers. “Do they really want to know how I’m doing? Nah. Just tell them you’re great.” More often than not, I have been far from great during quarantine, as I’m sure most of us have experienced. So often we perform wellness in our daily interactions in person—and it becomes exacerbated in the digitized space of online dating and social media. The person you see posted up on that beach grinning to the gawds may be struggling to pay rent behind the scenes.

This piece explores what it means to share a moment of emotional truth with a stranger. And for me, it brings up the query, Why are we scared to do this?

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