Internet Dating, Love, and Identity

Internet dating is one of the most popular ways to meet a potential person that meets your needs for your ideal relationship. For a love bases, online relationships are just ridiculous. 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 considering looks. If you scan those sites you’ll see unrealistic looking girls or even boys as their profile picture. Even so with their personal profile, most people will create false information to suit a person that is more likely to get matches or interests. Just to get a response they’re willing to pretend to be someone else, so if they can’t even be true to there self on the internet how true to themselves are they in real life?

In addition with having no consideration of who they may be talking to, most adults wouldn’t even consider the dangers of online dating, and forget they may not be talking to who they believe. With these sites that are created to meet friends and find love are even taking advantage of that to create a huge profit on these services. Teenagers also have access to sites with online chat rooms and social profile websites such as Myspace, Tagged, Twitter and Facebook. They often get lost in an illusion reality and can even give out too much information to their mysterious friend, which puts their life in danger.

However, adults often become to dependant on finding a mate on online dating services that they forget often that they may not be talking to who they may think they are talking to and consider a 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’.

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.... Love is finding a connection with someone in every way possible, emotional, physically, and mentally. You have to build trust with that person, something you can’t do on the internet since you’re always questioning ‘Am I really the only one they think about?’ ‘Are they talking to others just like me? Telling them everything they tell me?’ This is no way to have a healthy relationship.

Internet dating is only good for getting into negative and unnecessary situation that can easily be avoid. Adults and Teens that use these social profiles or services often put their lives in danger that could be easily avoided if they let the pieces come into place, and not forcing themselves to find love. Internet dating is a scam for money from internet nerds that have promises for things they can’t reassure. With weak minded users that forget there sense of reality and logic.