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Rafael N.
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Online Dating: A History
Online dating didn’t really begin with the advent of the internet.
The need to communicate to other human beings for love, companionship and sex goes back centuries, with each new technology opening up further avenues and fresh ways to reach out.
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Remington O.
@remington_do38
The Ugly Truth About Online Dating
Male Perception Of Dating Apps
Many men assume that women dating
online are interested in sleeping with strangers.
Online dating allows us to meet others we wouldn’t otherwise, but women should be aware that...
Avoiding Scams
- If something feels off, trust your gut.
- Be wary of anything asking for financial or personal information.
- Set up an anonymous email account from a widely used email service.
- Never give out your home phone, address or personal email address unless you absolutely trust the recipient.
- Drive yourself to the date (protects your address), keep an eye on your drink/food and pay half of the bill.
Online Relationships Don’t Usually Last
- Over one-third of online dating sites users have never actually gone on a date with someone they met online
- Relationships that start online are 28% more likely to end in their first year than relationships where the couples first met face-to-face.
- Couples who met online are nearly three times as likely to get divorced as couples that met face-to-face.
Rhett M.
@rhettm40
Love in the Time of Individualism
Free And Lonely
Most Americans of this generation are now more free than the earlier generations. They are free and spoilt for choice to date, marry, divorce or have casual sexual encounters.
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Modern Dating Scene
Mark Regnerus provides some insights into the modern dating scene:
- A casual relationship is now preferred to a committed one.
- Sex is now a field for marketers to provide products and services.
- It takes considerably less time, effort and risk for one to get sexual gratification through online dating or porn.
Marriage is now an Option
Youngsters are now wary of a life-long relationship and consider it as an option.
- One-third of people who are in their twenties may never marry.
- The increase of freedom to romance has changed the definition of romance.
Hunter B.
@hunb642
Online dating isn't a game. It's literally changing humanity.
Internet And Marriage
At least one-third of all marriages in the U. S. are now between partners who met online and researchers say online meeting-based marriages happen more quickly after the first date.
The Non-Divisive Effect
Before the Internet, dating was mostly restricted by one’s social and geographical limitations with friends of friends being the most common method of introduction. The Internet pairs couples that wouldn’t even meet otherwise.
Research also indicates that you're more likely to date someone from a different race if you're dating online, by a factor of about 7 percent.
Combating Social Stratification
There's a troubling trend towards exclusive, private membership-based dating apps that only allow very rich or very popular people, essentially creating a dating bubble that socially isolates people by class.
By using less restrictive apps we have the widest possible pools of potential dates, rather than aspiring to something more exclusive, we're keeping ourselves open to more random love connections that cut across lines of race and class and everything else that divides us. We're doing our part to keep society more open, less stratified.
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