Online Dating Research Paper

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In this generation of technology, people are more dependent on the machines, to solve their problems than figuring it out themselves. This creates a boundaries between intimacy and solitude, one could have 500 friends on Facebook or 5000 followers on Twitter but the moment he steps out of the virtual world he is lonely.
Now a days, virtual intimacy is what people depend on, rather than going out and meeting someone, they choose online dating. They does not want to put any extra effort of meeting/finding someone in person, because it takes too much time. When technology has made it easier for them to select or ignore someone just by swiping it right or left. They accept or reject a person in seconds based on how they look. Everyone post their
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I have seen people go on a family trips to show their togetherness but barely talks to each other, instead they prefer talking to other people on instant-messaging.
Technology have not only taken over our intimate relationship but has taken away the fun of being with someone too. It has degraded the fun of one’s childhood, now a days children choose Ipads and Iphones to play games on instead of going out in the park and playing with their friends. Now we see a mother giving her child a device to play games on so he will stop crying.
Even though technology is a boon as it has helped a lot to the human kind, it is a curse as well. It has detached a pure relationship between a mother and her child. It has brought people from thousands of miles away closer, but have separated us from our loved ones right beside us. Virtual intimacy has surely degraded our experiences of many kinds. It has broken many relationships because of misunderstandings, or it has judged people of being sexist or feminist based on one post on Facebook or Twitter. It has taken away the courage of confessing something to someone, or raising your voice against something in

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