Essay On Online Dating

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In our technologically savvy society, everything seems to be relying on technology to bring people together, typically in the form of social media. With this new trend for meeting people, over the recent years the internet is being used as the new “ocean” to find a fish in the sea. As online dating is at a rise, many online dating websites have surfaced to compensate for this growing interest through the new medium, there are many aspects potential “matches” look for in dates, and over the years, there has been a shift in the stigma that online dating carried previously. Despite how long online dating has been a resource, it still remains a relatively new way to meet people. The concept of online dating was for it to be a place where people that were having difficulty meeting good people through the “typical dating scene” or who just were not finding the right type of partner, they could find the right kind of people. So an online profile and information on a person’s interest becomes a filtration system that attempts to pair people up that seem to have similar interests, beliefs, etc. When it comes to online dating, the medium has not exactly kept to its own space. People are exposed to the influence of online dating on a daily basis through internet sidebar ads, through their television screens with commercials, and even on regular publications. With all of the “white noise” that is online dating, most people are familiar with the sites such as eHarmony, OKCupid, Grindr, MiuMeet, Blendr, Zoosk, ChristianMingle, and the infamous Match.com, the list is essentially endless. Amongst all of these websites dedicated to “assisting” adults to make “connections”, there has been a new contender to the mix, Tinder. The website, Tinder, is... ... middle of paper ... ...doo, has said that the way you meet people through online services are nothing like meeting people in real life because there is not a profile you can read to learn everything about a person. Badoo is a popular “social discovery app” that is used mostly in Europe and South America because it is used to get to know people a person is familiar with but does not really know who they are, “If we were a normal dating site, we'd have a matching algorithm and long user profiles that don't really tell you anything. We view interests as just an icebreaker.” With the trend that online dating and social media is taking, it seems as if using online dating and other resources will simply become the “new normal” as more online dating websites continue to surface, more people are being open to trying online dating, and the continuous shift from the former stigma of online dating.

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