New Age Dating

I think that the internet has changed what we look at as the "dating scene" now a days. People tend to turn to the internet for many different reasons. The dating websites make it seem like this is the way to go how they advertise that they have multimillion users and one out of every so relationships end in marriage. I really only knew about dating websites until watching Second Skin. I had absolutely no clue that you could communicate on these games, let alone find love connections. This type of internet romance is totally different than that of a structured site whose purpose is soley to get you in a relationship.

When my grandparents met, they met through each others families. Back in 1948 there was no such thing as internet dating and you had to go out and find love the hard way I guess you could say. Even my mother who was dating in 1972 met her mate at school. To think that these forms of finding love could be what we consider "old school" is unbelievable to me. If my parents or grandparents could have found their love online I could only imagine what life would be like now.

Online dating and I have absolutely nothing in common. I don't know how I really feel about it for others but for me I wouldn't ever be able to do it. I do think that its cool that you get to know this person before even meeting them but then again because you don't know this person they could be telling you whatever they want you to hear. Its all up to that person what they want you to know about them . The little exposure I have had to online dating involves these two girls at my job. They both met these guys that are currently "going through" a divorce. One after the third date decided he wasn't ready for a  relationship yet but ended right back on the dating website after he told her that. The other one he broke it off after stating that his son needed his time and attention right now.

Online dating is totally different than real life romance because as i staed earlier you dont know this person on the other end of this computer. In real life dating they say it takes 3-6 months to to really get to know someone and if you hold phone conversations with an online interest for a month and then you meet it  takes that much longer to be able to know them. Also if you met someone through mututal friends you can find out a little background information on this person but if you meet them online you have to take what they tell you until you find out differently.