Dear readers,
Nowadays, we tend to shift everything that required us to do something or go somewhere into the online world of the internet. If you want to travel, you can book your flight, hotel etc. online, and you don't even need to go to the travel agent in order to book anything. The advantage is of course, that you can do everything yourself from the comfort of your own home, but sometimes you have no idea who sold you the trip, or who organised it for you. Same goes for books, clothes and basically all other products since Amazon's got you covered with basically everything. With the introduction of social media, we got a new handy tool for staying in touch with people. Our friends can be as far as we want and we will still have the option to message them for free, we are connected unlike ever before. Don't think that I am one of those who thinks that social media is making us anti-social, because I believe that it depends on the person if he/she uses social media so much, that it makes the person anti-social, in which case social media is not to blame, but the person who's misusing it. I mean, if a person is addicted to heroin, who would you blame? The addict or the substance? Think about it.
As activities such as shopping have moved online, so has dating also found it's way on the internet, with online-dating sites warming up the field, and then speed-dating apps (Tinder and co.) just taking over everything that we knew as dating and re-defining it in the modern era. Today you don't even have to leave the house to meet someone, you can just swipe right and hope to get the opportunity to talk. Some sites try to be more accurate by letting you create a more specific profile, I personally think these have the highest success potential in terms of actually finding something serious. In the end, it always depends on the person. There are different reasons for joining online-dating sites. For me personally it's just for the experience and then to see what may be, but others have different motives and that's fine as well. You might not find love nowadays, but finding sex has become so much easier. I would say that cheating has also become easier, but then again, if someone wants to cheat, they will do it, whether it's easy or not, because the intention is there.
As of now, I can't really say if online dating is really a good or a bad thing, and I think that one can't really properly just because nowadays everyone is on these sites, and no one uses real life meeting anymore. It's becoming increasingly difficult to date outside of the internet because our lifestyle has changed. Young people go out less, the number of social contacts a person has been steadily decreasing, and especially in developed countries, careers are put first. Society is focusing on cutting time wherever possible, and a result people are taking dating with them like everything else on a smartphone, so you only go out with people you think you're compatible with. It's a messed up system, but as it seems that's how it works.
The thing that bothers me the most about online dating is that some of the guys I've met online have lost all sense of manner. I have never been judged so quickly by a person in real life like I have been judged by people online. Since I don't have muscles, and since I don't like my body, I don't take off my shirt for pictures, and I refuse to do so, but apparently my body has become an important issue for most guys out there who want to date me. Looks have never mattered so much and if you don't nail that first online impression, you're screwed. We might be stuck with online-dating, yet we can rid ourselves of idiots who believe that they behave how they want to get what they want. After all, we are all human.
Having said all this, I hope that you can agree with some of the things I said, feel free to leave your opinion in the comments and until next time.
Sincerely Yours, Stefan.
