Has online dating changed the idea of love?
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05-Feb-2020 , Updated on 2/6/2020 12:25:05 AM

Has online dating changed the idea of love?

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If I ask you to describe yourself in one line, you think whatever you write will justify to what you feel, what you know, how you want to yourself to be seen and how you love yourself, what part of you, you don't like and what part of you, you want but you are unable to express it. 

So can you think that any application can do justice in bringing the essence in me, the complete thing in me, any application for that matter?

Did matchmaking not happen earlier? Offline matchmaking has always been prevalent in almost all cultures.

The only difference was that a third party used to be involved, helping the prospective partners to come together and interact. And now this third party is something to do do with cyberspace.

There are these businesses working around online dating. It's not that only out generation is engaged in online dating, other is using it as well.

Many people from different demographics engage with it because people don't like living a monotonous life, people want to live an adventurous and different life.

Has online dating changed the idea of love

This word 'different' is the root cause of this problem because in the race for being different we have become less than ordinary. This new-found freedom attract you immensely but also damages you on a relational level.

Now that the choices are so vast you like something about someone and something else about someone.

The entire market of online dating is governed by this- that, we know what you like, you just have to tell us what you want, we will give you the best.

Online relationships are working on these promises, "you just tell us your preference and we will give you the best". 

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It's a very intrinsic dilemma because each time when you are going out with someone on a date, you also feel you will miss out on so many other options that were being suggested by this app or this app.

So you are never there in that emotion. You are always weighing your choices. 

Earlier it used to take a month to write a letter, especially when it was written with a special emotion.

And that moment when people were about to post the letter- that time, that moment, that anxiety used to be so special that people would anticipate a reply the moment they sent the letter.

Has online dating changed the idea of love

What people experience during that time was their personal experience, there was no outside involvement, no likes, no smileys, no emojis.

And then when the other person receives it and let you know that the person has received then another kind of dimension, another gamut of experience, emotions started and layering in that person.

There is nothing of this sort now. Now people just text and say "I love you", "I don't love you",  "I like you", "you are superb", "you are fabulous" but then what?

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