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How do you think online dating has changed the way people meet, communicate, and form deep relationships? Do you think it's increased or diminished the superficial emphasis placed on looks and financial status?
Can people truly get to know one another by meeting online?
How do you feel about long distance relationships that come about from online connections? People are meeting others that they would never come across in person, because of online "dating and relating".
I think it's made RL relationships easier. By the time you meet someone, you've done a lot of corresponding without concentrating on looks. You know more about that person than you would if you had met at the gym or the supermarket.
I think it's made RL relationships easier. By the time you meet someone, you've done a lot of corresponding without concentrating on looks. You know more about that person than you would if you had met at the gym or the supermarket.
Very true, I dated a few men from online that were from my area or near me. I would most likely never met them if it wasn't for the net. My ex is from online.
How do you think online dating has changed the way people meet, communicate, and form deep relationships? Do you think it's increased or diminished the superficial emphasis placed on looks and financial status?
Can people truly get to know one another by meeting online?
How do you feel about long distance relationships that come about from online connections? People are meeting others that they would never come across in person, because of online "dating and relating".
Have you ever done online dating?? You don't "meet online". You MEET in REAL LIFE. And THAT is where you get to know the person. Online dating is only an additional venue that provides options for finding prospective dates. Yes, it does make you aware of others that are looking, that is exactly the whole point. And it's great. I've met lots of guys that have probably crossed my path a dozen times, but our schedules never brought us in contact. But once I meet the person and decide to date them, the online communication pretty much ceases.
Most long-distance relationships are not long-lived. I personally have no desire to have such a relationship. But if it works for others, then that's great.
Have you ever done online dating?? You don't "meet online". You MEET in REAL LIFE. And THAT is where you get to know the person. Online dating is only an additional venue that provides options for finding prospective dates.
Maybe someone should change the terminology to Online Prospecting since so many people are under the assumption that you are actually dating on the internet and not in real life.
Maybe someone should change the terminology to Online Prospecting since so many people are under the assumption that you are actually dating on the internet and not in real life.
I don't have a problem with the term. I just don't get how people can make such silly illogical assumptions.
I think we have never been more interconnected in human history, however, at the same time, we have never been more disconnected from each other because the cyber relationships are quite shallow.
Come on, if I got into a car accident NONE of my "online" friends would be at my hospital bed. And it is for this reason why it's best to limit time in cyber space and forge real friendships because one day you just might need the REAL help.
You are talking about online "friends". I think the OP is discussing real-life romantic relationships that started via online dating sites.
I met a lot of women online. One was coo coo for coco puffs but most were very nice. met and married my wife of 10 years online. It was hard though only seeing each other on weeks as she lived in AL and I in TN. We made it work though.
I met my husband online. Not on a dating website, just by chance. And yes, we fell in love over internet - it's possible, we're living proof of it.
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