Kent State Students Become The Hottest Love Story On The Internet After They Match On Tinder But Only Flirt Over Text For 3 Years Because They Are Too Busy To Meet Up

METRO - Still more rare are the matches that turn into fully fledged relationships.

For most people, they end up trapped in a circular text conversation for about a week of ‘Y’alright?’, ‘Yeah, y’alright?’ before they start again.

But one couple has managed to keep their text conversation going on longer than most.

In fact, they’ve been chatting for three years and have still never met.

Move over The Notebook!  Take a seat Titanic!  (The movie not the horrible real life tragedy).  Peace out Romeo and Juliet! Welcome to Love in the internet age!

Crazy to see how much the Love Game has changed through the years.  So many years of handwriting letters, waiting months by the mailbox to hear from your beloved, holding a boombox on top of your head outside of her window, all of the pomp and circumstance of courtship, pursuing the woman of your dreams in the face of all the pressures of society around you.  Generations of true love finding a way against all odds due to nothing but the passion and dedication of two people who belong together.   All leading up to this moment.

These Kent State kids matching on a dating app and never actually hanging out in person because they’re too busy.

This is Josh:

And this is Michelle (sup?):

Couple of good looking kids.

They matched on Tinder 3 years ago and hit it off but, as they say, life got in the way…

Just too busy to meet up. For THREE YEARS!  Damn Presidents Day you know?  Always squashing even the best laid plans.  Two possible soulmates tragically being kept apart by…(I don’t know, homework?  How many fucking assignments did these two have?  You’re in college, what could possibly keep you so busy for 3 straight years?)

Looked like maybe it just wasn’t meant to be.  Maybe life doesn’t always turn out like it does on the big screens of Hollywood.

However, this story has a happy ending.  Being the savvy PR machine that they are, Tinder saw this story rise to the top of Buzzfeed and Twitter moments and jumped all over it.

So there you have it.  This is what I was talking about, modern love.  Where you can meet someone over an app you signed up for from your couch to find someone to fuck in the same zip code as you and flirt over text message for a few years then go viral on the internet and end up with an all expenses paid trip to Hawaii by said app company looking for positive PR.

Romance ain’t dead, it’s just evolved to technology.