Is there a difference?
A friend of mine claims that there is a difference between the two. I told her that to me its the same banana. I mean if you go out with the opposite sex that means you're interested in him/her right? Especially if you have never met him/her before. She claims the difference is dating consists of holding hands.... Huh?
Anyway, what do you girls and guys think?
I guess it is only a thin line between going out (as casual friends) and dating (getting into a B-G relationship) . Friends of both sexes can go on outing together as a group or just 2 of them.
All dates started off as just plain going out ... you could say that dating is the next level up from going out.
It's just semantics but it's the same thing.
to us guys it may be the same banana but girls do differentiate the two. as far as i know (or make that how it was explained to me), a date is more intimate while going out is just chit-chat.