ONLINE DATING
Tuesday, August 18, 2009 by Kimiko87
Last Monday's Lecture got me thinking about how the internet has changed our lifestyles completely. Everybody has heard one story about somebody meeting a stranger online and the scary events that followed. It's so easy to re-invent yourself on the internet, and your 'profile' could easily be manipulated in so many ways. But internet dating sites have become so popular over the last years. I read somewhere that its more common for career- orientated individuals to be on dating sites because they don't have the time to go out to a bar and meet people. Dating sites allows the individual to be specific with their searches and find a compatible match in a matter of seconds. I think I can be understanding to those situations. If you can go on a website and meet ten compatible people with blue eyes, brown hair, and who likes to ski; why not? But at the same time, I think the internet makes us more self- conscious and aware of our surroundings. In the lecture, Luke discussed this notion of 'fantasy' when it comes to online dating. The question that I ask myself is if these relationships people build online would be transferred in the 'real world'?