The Evolution of Online Dating
Looking for love hasn't changed in the year 2016, it is still the ever laboring process of finding the right one which for many of us is an understandably complex and sometimes stressful situation. Trying to locate the right person for you often requires one to meet, interact with and entertain multiple people daily, monthly and even yearly with each individual interaction teaching and shaping you over time to efficiently select and conclude on the characteristics you may nor may not look for in your final partner.
This practice of love and courtship is not only an instinctual part of human nature but a social part, that having a lack of, has been shown to be detrimental to the health of some. All the while having a toxic or unhealthy relationship can also serve as a disadvantage that can also affect one negatively.
Each progressive year boosts more options as Earth’s population grows, providing the opportunity for love in all aspects and between all races and genders. Along with progressive views of a more educated society that is more so at peace with the inter racial and inter ethnical mixing, there is one technological innovation that further enhances and even legitimizes the extensiveness and efficiency of this search, it is none other than the Internet.
The internet has created a pathway from a technologically savvy generation to not only spread their thoughts, visions and ideas across nations and seas but to disperse love and warmth as well. In respect to the past where one must be of a respectable social standing or an economically affluent background in order to court a loyal lover, these days with innovations such as online dating, not much is needed but for a computer, a keyboard, and a camera if preferable to, meet, match and fall in love with a possible future significant other.
Notable sources such as Huffington Post and Forbes magazine are reporting that almost all age groups are actively partaking in online dating culture. e-harmony.com statistics state almost 40% of Americans use online dating with primary users being men, it also claims 20% of committed relationships begin on-line. The collective conclusion these numbers and reviews offer, result in On-line dating being implied as the future of romantic courtship, alleged to be even more successful than older generations partnerships as the advantage of computer based selection will supposedly weed out any unfruitful matches making for a stronger and longer lasting unions
On-line dating gives its utilizers the ability to not only widen their pool of preference, but thanks to websites like Match.com and social media apps like Twitter, these users now have a way to effectively filter through and single out the type or types of persons they chose to romantically interact with based off similar characteristics or common interests. Despite these benefits, dating on-line has also sired a creative new list of nightmares and taboos that although made possible by the act of online interaction are not totally unavoidable to those who partake cautiously.
Just like with regular face to face dating, one must be watchful for untrustworthy characters and deceitful parties, some of whom take on the identity of others to fulfill their dirty work while others accomplish their duty from the anonymity of behind their computer screens. These villains, nicknamed amusingly by internet community to be “Catfish” prey on the vulnerable, naive and uneducated users in the online world wreaking havoc on the emotional, financial and sometimes even physical well being of trusting first time online daters.
There is also the worry of encountering people with harmful agendas such as criminals or rapists whom also disguise themselves as eagerly hopefuls on these websites. Most of which offer guidelines on how to somewhat weed out the good from the bad and the bad from the ugly. Helpful tips such as where and how to meet online interests, and even how to report the accounts of those who falsely portray themselves serve as safeguards for yearning but skeptical users who want to be able to somewhat guarantee a personal level of safety despite the invasiveness online dating attributes to ones life.
all in all online dating also offers a relatively safe, and option abundant safe haven for singles hoping to find love in an all too crazy society.