Then there came emails, chat rooms, community sites and a plethora of areas for people to explore the many opportunities out there. With all this technology and the world becoming even smaller, but more crowded, the internet seems to have back fired. We have access to more things, yes. We meet people we may have never met before, yes. We can talk to family or friends around the world, virtually for free, yes. But how has this effected our own personal worlds.
I am not single right now, but if I was, how in the heck would I be able to use the internet to find a date. If you do a search for online dating you come up with an astounding number of results that equals about three times the population of California. Once you join one of the sites, then you have on average, 400-500 people to go through to find someone you are interested in. Then you talk with them over email and get to know each other and find out that the picture they had up is from high school and they are 10 years older now, if it is them at all.
What happened to the old fashioned dating? You know the one that isn't virtual. The one where you two walk into a room and your eyes lock and there is an instant attraction. How can you lock eyes and feel that romance online? There are video's now, but how do you really know unless your are actually looking into each others eyes and your stumble over your words instead of back spacing or deleting.
It is just amazing that online dating is so popular, but then again it's not. It is much easier to sit in your own home where you are safe. It is easier to handle rejection because you can line a few up at the same time and they will never run into you while you are out on another date. If you don't like them, you can block them out and send their messages to the trash. You can be who you want to be instead of who you are. I guess the popularity of online dating isn't so amazing when you think about it. We live in a new world where peoples lives exist in a virtual world and it is much easier to control that world than it is our own.
