The Negative Aspects Of Online Dating

I remember when I was a little girl, I would ask my grandmother how she met my grandfather. She told me they met by mutual friends. But, something sparked between them when they first saw each other face to face. She called it “true love”. She described every detail from the first time they started to date to the moment they started growing old together, until my grandfather died. But she still loved him with all her heart even after he passed away. Now a days, dating is mostly online and not face to face like how it use to be. There’s not the same spark as meeting someone face to face. I look around and I see people on their electronic devices trying online dating or not even looking at the person they are with. They have a screen blocking …show more content…
Relationships offline do happen but not always often. However, people start to rely on online dating. There are over 40 million single people in the U.S that have tried online dating. When someone signs up for online dating, they have millions of people to choose from and go through their profile to see what they have in common and interest. People believe that this is the best way to get to know someone. Problem is, they are not all the time meeting the person online face to face. People create an image that want to portray. They change when they meet in person with someone else. The way they only connect to them is on a computer screen. People only know the other person by their account info. Face to face connection seems a lot better than connection over a computer screen. Also, it gives a chance for people to actually know if the other person exists or not and see how they really are versus their profile. A term for this is called “catfishing”. Catfish is when someone is in a relationship by a fictional online person. Some people have been in this situation before so there is not a lot of trusting …show more content…
My cousin has and she had met people before. She said some were okay and others seem weird to her. She would always meet people from online in public just in case anything had happened. Online dating wasn’t a success for her but she didn’t stop dating. She met someone without meeting them online and she has a good life with her husband and three kids. Our generation seems to believe online dating is the way to go. I am personally someone who is old school. I would like to meet people in person because to me it is a better way to get to know them. I wouldn’t mind trying to meet someone online but I prefer face to face because meeting in person helps someone start to think questions in their head about the person that is in front of them. It makes it easier to tell if the relationship can work out or doesn’t work