The Online Dating Phenomenon (assignment 4-1)

Whatever happened to good old fashion dating? The type of dating where you see someone, who you may be interested in and you approach them, exchange phone numbers, and get to know them. Nowadays people are fascinated by having a quick fix and are moving toward online dating. While online people are more likely to express the things they are thinking. They are more prone to share deeper information. Social network sites such as MySpace, eHarmony, and SinglesNet are just some of the sites that are used for online dating. There are several issues with this new dating phenomenon. The first issue is that people tend to fabricate their stories online. They have a tendency to lie about their lives, their appearance, as well as their age. The second issue is the most serious and that’s that some people are online searching for victims to prey on. The most common trend is older men talking to teenage girls and getting to know them. They trick these girls by pretending that they are their friend when in all actuality they are grown men looking to rape them. They don’t tell the girls their ages though they like and talk like they are around the same age as the girl. The most recent example is the “Craigslist” Killer. He went online looking for services and met up with the girls tied them up, and tried to rape them. One of his victims he actually did kill and he is in jail currently for the crime. Despite these horrific trends many people still use sites such as eHarmony, and SinglesNet to find love. EHarmony is a very well known dating site that requires a membership fee to join. People don’t expect sites such as these to have people on them that are cold blooded killers. The fact of the matter is that whenever you go online looking for love you are putting yourself in danger. The best way to find love is the good old fashion way. Let people who are attracted to you approach you and vice versa. Meeting someone face-to-face you are more likely to tell the truth when sharing information. When online people feel more comfortable and relaxed and people become the person they want to be instead of who they are. The moral of the story is to just keep it safe by only talking to people you know when you are online, leave the online dating thing alone and date the old fashion way.