Last night I was in a taxi, coming home from Dragonfly in the Dupont Circle area and the cabbie asked if I would mind if he picked up some additional fares.  I didn’t really care so he scooped up a group of law students on their way to Foggy Bottom. 

They were a pretty gregarious group, and one of them asked me whether or not I was online. 

It was quite a strange question to me because if you run a query for “Jiyan Wei” you will see that there is a decent-sized volume of results - when you spend four years working for an interactive PR firm and running your own Web site that just sort of happens.  

Not knowing exactly what to say, I just responded lamely, “Errr……”

She looked at me blankly and then specified, “Are you on Match.com?”

So being on Match.com now means you are online. 

Wow.