In a world where technology is taking over. Normal face to face interactions is ceasing to exist. Everything is made for the internet. How people meet, communicate, stay in touch, and many other things are strongly relyed on the internet. Dating is a big thing that has changed from traditional to technical. It use to be that people would meet, go out to the movies and dinner to get to know one another and from that date decide whether they want to continue seeing that individual. Dating today is not the same. People meet on social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and many more sites. They talk constantly day to day but may go without officially meeting for weeks, moths, and maybe even years. So they begin dating purely off conversation. In a way this isn't a bad thing. Yes initially a person may be drawn to speak to someone because of the picture they had posted. But some scenarios they don't meet and they don't even video chat so again. The connection is purely off the conversations they have. This can also be a negative thing because never seeing a person you talk to so frequently can give you room for doubt. Which is what happened in the movie Catfish. Nev was intrigued by Megan's picture and even tho he never saw her the conversation kept him satisfied for months until it seemed suspicious and he noticed her never really seen her put side of pictures from social media site Facebook. Other forms of dating are through dating sites and Apps. For example, there's an App called Tinder. In tinder you post a picture and a few "essential" details and you wait for someone to be interested. Now on the opposite side you scroll through pics of guys and based off the photo you decide whether to get to know this person or not. You are to either swipe left or swipe right. Other online dating sights are not too far from Facebook either you make a profile and search through other profiles to find what some would call the perfect mate. These days dating is definitely not the same from what it used to be. Relationships before our generation lasted longer marriage was the goal of dating. There days dating is for fun. Marriage isn't always the end it's all about just cute pics, matching outfits, "baecations" things that are used just to show off your mate to the world for bragging rights.
1 comment:
This post is extremely true to how I see the world we live in today. And I think that Nev should've done better research rather than solemnly relying on some pictures and basic phone conversations to think if that was megan or not i think i would have caught on quicker, but hey like you said this generation isn't too worried about that when they don't think someone is who they claim to be they will just move on to the next best thing.
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