Is it just me noticing a disturbing level of questions about 'young love' .. In scenarios that involve two people discovering a potential 'love' relationship?

I don't find it disturbing at all. I think it's kinda cute :) when I was a kid we used to play a game called M.A.S.H. To find out which boy in our class we were gonna marry and where we would live when we grow up....it was serious stuff back then:) I think all they really wanna hear is " yes" he likes you cos they're young and " in love". It's not hurting anything ...you don't have to answer the question if you don't want to ...and they'll grow out of it cos we all did ... Cos I said so :)

Those may very well be the kids of some of the stupidest parents of all time.

Nowadays, kids live in electronic envelopes and need a device to investigate their love life.

We had lots of teen questions on Ask, of course, but the number of "Does s/he like me?" questions has been building lately. At least we're not getting the "How do I know if I'm pregnant?" questions or, worse, "If I'm pregnant, how can I tell if it's mine?"

No, it's not just you. I've seen a lot of them lately. I guess parents don't have time any more to talk with their kids about these things, so they come here for opinions from people they don't even know. Have to let most of them ask any way.

Agreed, they would have just as much luck if they asked an inanimate object.

We have no idea what is going on in "Lover Boy's" head . . . All we can ask are "What are the social cues?"

Questions like .. "Is he/she interested"? Questions that are impossible to answer, when the asker can't even determine what is going on.  How in the world could anyone even answer that kind of question.

yeah your right there are a lot of questions about that.

There have been a lot of those questions lately, and it's really annoying.

I don't think it helps anyone when all you've known is how to stare at your phone and text someone, instead of looking up and actually talking to them.

For some kids, it's the kiss of death when you tell them to actually go and talk to someone. They don't know how. They don't know how to read body language or social cues.

I see moms and dads out in public with their kids. What are they doing? Staring at their phone instead of interacting with the kids. You learn a lot from your parents and what they are learning is how to disappear into a phone or tablet. Pretty sad.