Samantha Cruz, Blog #3

Samantha Cruz

Blog #3

Rachael Hernandez

When I was a teenager growing up, online dating was a big deal to me. I use to have all my relationships online because it was fun and you didn’t even to see the person every day or at all.  Once upon a time, I met some kid online and we hit it off instantly. We were always commenting on each other’s post on MySpace, yes, MYSPACE and we even changed our names to each other’s dates; how corny right. I remember I asked him through chat if we can talk through the phone one time and he said he didn’t have a phone or he never had time. I told my friend one time and she wasn’t happy about it so she ended up doing some research on the dude. Little did I know, his MySpace page was a fake and I actually ended up finding the real kid in the picture, talk about being cat fished without the cameras being around. The point I am trying to get across is that after that, I never tried online dating again, I was so scared. I was scared because I didn’t know who I was talking to and even saying I love you too. It was really creepy. Throughout the years, online dating became more popular because people thought it would be fun to meet someone online without having any physical face-to-face interactions. Online dating has a lot of pros and cons. In lab last Friday, we seen a video called When Strangers meet Online, and I thought it was pretty interesting watching others people’s experiences and seeing how they reacted to online dating and actually meeting up with whoever they were chatting with. My favorite part was when the guy had a second life in the avatar game, I never even knew that existed but it worked out for him because he said in the video it took his mind off being lonely so that was his escape.

Online dating varies from person to person. I would never online date again because now and days, you never know who’s on the internet and who you’re speaking to so it’s scary. Other people love to date online because for them it’s fun and you don’t have to meet anyone and most importantly you can even be different person. I understand why people might online date, which is because they might feel like they’re not attractive enough or because most of the time they’re always browsing the web. There’s so many websites out there that can actually try to find the right person for you by matching each other’s religion, goals, hobbies, and etc. Online dating is proven to be highly effective in this generation because it’s easier to find someone just like you based on the traits you put online. As I said in the beginning in my blog, online dating can have its pros and cons. The pros will be finding someone who is just like you and having a great bond from the start but a con will be revealing to much information to someone you think you know and when you finally meet them, they aren’t the person they say they were.