Can online dating replace meeting a person in real life? Nowadays, with the development of the new technology, more and more people prefer to communicate online and thus gradually pushing the development of the online dating. According to the statistics, the people between 30-50 years old are more active in online dating. “We presented 367 single Dutch Internet users between 18 and 60 years old with an online questionnaire. We found that online dating was unrelated to income and educational level. Respondents between 30 and 50 years old were the most active online daters” (Valkenburg). Facing the rapid development of the online dating, we can get the root of it which is the growth of using communication technology pushing the growth of using
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However, in my opinion, most online daters always lie to each other in order to keep their relationship. They manage to conceal the real age; they manage to use some Apps to make their photos more beautiful; they manage to pretend a wealthy people; they manage to make up stories; even some people manage to conceal the real gender. It is easy to understand what they do is to attract people and let them indulge in their physical attractiveness by telling various kinds of lies. Nevertheless, except those who just want to play and don’t pay much attention, or the online daters will meet in person in real world finally if they determine the relationship. No lovers will be in love through a cold machine all the time. Lies are just like time bombs, we don’t know when these bombs go up. However, the only thing we know is that once the time bombs blast, the two sides will be injured seriously. “The people you meet online might be hiding something. About 85% of Internet users and 72% of online daters found this a big disadvantage of online dating. Again, women were significantly more likely than men to find this a big disadvantage and there were no other noteworthy differences between subgroups” (Dr. Robert and Dr. Rhonda). Hence, you can see that the online dating is a kind of unpractical love which hides under
However, in my opinion, most online daters always lie to each other in order to keep their relationship. They manage to conceal the real age; they manage to use some Apps to make their photos more beautiful; they manage to pretend a wealthy people; they manage to make up stories; even some people manage to conceal the real gender. It is easy to understand what they do is to attract people and let them indulge in their physical attractiveness by telling various kinds of lies. Nevertheless, except those who just want to play and don’t pay much attention, or the online daters will meet in person in real world finally if they determine the relationship. No lovers will be in love through a cold machine all the time. Lies are just like time bombs, we don’t know when these bombs go up. However, the only thing we know is that once the time bombs blast, the two sides will be injured seriously. “The people you meet online might be hiding something. About 85% of Internet users and 72% of online daters found this a big disadvantage of online dating. Again, women were significantly more likely than men to find this a big disadvantage and there were no other noteworthy differences between subgroups” (Dr. Robert and Dr. Rhonda). Hence, you can see that the online dating is a kind of unpractical love which hides under