Online Dating

ONLINE DATING

Introduction

According to ABC Good Morning America, reported on 16th June, 2007, an estimated 40 million American use online dating services hoping to meet “the one” and there are more than 1,400 Web sites in the $700 million a year business.

Nowadays, people become too dependent on finding a mate through online dating services that they forget they may not be talking to who they think they are talking to and consider as friend. Most times a user will be highly influenced by a seemly nice person, and decide to take the next step in meeting their mysterious ‘soul mate’. Some people believe that recent research on online dating sheds a new light on understanding attraction, love, and romantic relationships. However, although the Internet has helped few find romantic relationships and marriages, online dating has been overlooked various defects and problems associated with this type of "contact."

Today, I will first talk about how dating style has evolved due to technology evolving, and what brought about society’s obsession with meeting and dating people online. Then I’ll deep into the consequences that online dating and why online dating is never a wise choice to find a relationship.

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A. According to Aunshul Rege, in What's love got to do with it? Exploring online dating scams and identity fraud, in 2009, the rapid development of information and communication technologies and the prevalence of the internet offer an alternative venue for romantic endeavors.

• Internet daters experience excitement when they interact with other people through new, digital mediums.

• Internet dating is now one of the most popular ways to meet a potential person that meets people needs for their ideal relationship.

• However looking from a love bases, online relationships are just outlandish.

• The starting idea of Internet dating was to get to know someone without knowing what they look like, to create chemistry with another person without...