Blog 3 Online Dating

Computer mediated communication is a large part of our lives, the convenience that has come to us by the incorporation and enhancement of the Internet is unbelievable. We can do things we never thought possible in time that seems surreal. So it should come as no surprise that online dating has become such a large part of our dating lives as a generation amounting to roughly 1/3 of all marriages that have happened in the past decade. 

I have always been skeptical of online dating, the way I have seen it portrayed usually tends to be along the lines of serial-killer like and predators, weird people, and just an overall taboo. However that is certainly not the way things are perhaps they were for a brief time but online dating has truly evolved into what is now a normal thing. 

In all honesty when I was told we would be shifting gears to online dating I thought this would e a very weird experience, and while I think I was right to some degree I was mostly wrong,  have a new found perspective on online dating it went from being something I would never do to something I might give a try. 

OkCupid was a very intriguing site, I was a little taken back by the specificity of some of the questions along with a few of the profiles I read but in that experience I saw how interesting and fun of a concept online dating can truly be. It it is now no surprise to meet why the rate of success for online dating is so high, it kind of makes you more focused on the character as opposed to that illicit physical attraction we talked about. 

Because people on online dating sites can pinpoint exactly what they are looking for like minded individuals tend to be paired up, there is a certain intrigue in wondering who you would get matched up with. We have learned that people who tend to use CMC more often are more likely to use online dating sites and with CMC becoming more and more frequent among people we can only assume that online dating will trend up as well.