The new world of dating...Part I
Dating in the new wired (wireless if you insist) world leads to so many problems these days. It is just a new and more expedient way for our genus to perform the courtship dance with hopes that it leads to long term bliss or short term shallow satisfaction. This post is about the ways we have dulled our senses to the rules of the courtship dance, made ourselves susceptible to deception and emotional attack, and how we’ve moved a step closer to throwing away all that a million years of development have written into our DNA.
It is so easy to try and get a mate now, a few clicks, enter some info and off you go into the wonderful world of internet dating. The ease of this leads to the first easy way we decide to cheat ourselves and potential mates. In seconds you can put up a .jpeg image of yourself, or a friend or a movie start; any other figurehead you want to represent you. Who said it has to be you in the picture? You can also doctor your photo or use an old photo prior to the 40 lbs beer gut or the Grecian Formula starved hair. No matter what you do, from using an airbrush service like Glamour Shots to a picture of a handsome obscure soccer player from Italy the medium of the internet can in absolutely no way be able to discern your honesty here.
Once you’ve posted on one of these sites, most require you to actually write out, in non-graded essay form, your answers to their basic psychology exam. Upon completion of this you should be out there ready to attract the attention of all of the opposite sex you can handle. Of course, you can write whatever you like in those sections and it will be ok as long as the website’s tracking software doesn’t distinguish your phone number or email address in the body of the exposition you have written. You’re now ready to have your ad on display and be viewed by the thousands!
Well it will be viewed by the thousands if you’re on a site that has a billion members, cause lets face it, internet sites have ratios of men-to-women about somewhere near one-hundred and fifty to one. Once you read the about 20 profiles of either sex, the common person will suddenly realize that if they are a normal man then “they won’t get any emails first”. The gals will quickly have to re-write their postings adding the common buzz words of: “if you are looking for sex - move on to someone else” or words to that effect. Go ahead and try a site, if you have not done so, you will be lead to believe that the men are all sex-hungry adulterers and that seventy-five percent of the women do about nineteen hours of work, water skiing, rafting, kayaking, hiking and parenting each day and need a guy to keep up with them. Oh and this guy needs to be in shape, wealthy with a full-time career, a full set of teeth and no kids of his own.
So now we’ve deceived the other sex to be attracted to us, we write some pretty emails back and forth and since it is has been decided to leave originality out of this equation it is ok to plagiarize Maya Angelou phrases in the notes as well. The date is set up and off we go to meet.
Now if you both were honest, and you just click, then of course it is love at first sight and off you go! Yippee! The chances of that are slim, I won’t add the words “and none” because I’m single and a man has to have some hope. You can imagine all the bad things that can happen from this point on. Just think of some of your worst dates.
So what is a person to do? Well on my next post, I’ll lay down some ground rules about internet dating and trust me, if you follow them you’ll be happy. No it won’t push the other person away, if it does then you didn’t want that person anyway!
Sat
It is so easy to try and get a mate now, a few clicks, enter some info and off you go into the wonderful world of internet dating. The ease of this leads to the first easy way we decide to cheat ourselves and potential mates. In seconds you can put up a .jpeg image of yourself, or a friend or a movie start; any other figurehead you want to represent you. Who said it has to be you in the picture? You can also doctor your photo or use an old photo prior to the 40 lbs beer gut or the Grecian Formula starved hair. No matter what you do, from using an airbrush service like Glamour Shots to a picture of a handsome obscure soccer player from Italy the medium of the internet can in absolutely no way be able to discern your honesty here.
Once you’ve posted on one of these sites, most require you to actually write out, in non-graded essay form, your answers to their basic psychology exam. Upon completion of this you should be out there ready to attract the attention of all of the opposite sex you can handle. Of course, you can write whatever you like in those sections and it will be ok as long as the website’s tracking software doesn’t distinguish your phone number or email address in the body of the exposition you have written. You’re now ready to have your ad on display and be viewed by the thousands!
Well it will be viewed by the thousands if you’re on a site that has a billion members, cause lets face it, internet sites have ratios of men-to-women about somewhere near one-hundred and fifty to one. Once you read the about 20 profiles of either sex, the common person will suddenly realize that if they are a normal man then “they won’t get any emails first”. The gals will quickly have to re-write their postings adding the common buzz words of: “if you are looking for sex - move on to someone else” or words to that effect. Go ahead and try a site, if you have not done so, you will be lead to believe that the men are all sex-hungry adulterers and that seventy-five percent of the women do about nineteen hours of work, water skiing, rafting, kayaking, hiking and parenting each day and need a guy to keep up with them. Oh and this guy needs to be in shape, wealthy with a full-time career, a full set of teeth and no kids of his own.
So now we’ve deceived the other sex to be attracted to us, we write some pretty emails back and forth and since it is has been decided to leave originality out of this equation it is ok to plagiarize Maya Angelou phrases in the notes as well. The date is set up and off we go to meet.
Now if you both were honest, and you just click, then of course it is love at first sight and off you go! Yippee! The chances of that are slim, I won’t add the words “and none” because I’m single and a man has to have some hope. You can imagine all the bad things that can happen from this point on. Just think of some of your worst dates.
So what is a person to do? Well on my next post, I’ll lay down some ground rules about internet dating and trust me, if you follow them you’ll be happy. No it won’t push the other person away, if it does then you didn’t want that person anyway!
Sat