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ONLINE DATING
Dating is a very common social activity among people of different age groups of both the sexes in our society. People get engaged in such an activity to assess each other and to see whether they can set up a fruitful private and personal relationship between themselves which may ultimately lead to marriage. Traditionally, these dates were arranged by a third party who might be a member of the family, a friend or a professional matchmaker. In the olden days, parents encouraged the couples after getting engaged to go for date so that they could know each other better before their marriage.
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With the increase in the popularity of internet, concept of online dating has started in modern times. It may be considered to be an example how a system has been developed to help organize a social custom using modern technology. In this system, single persons, couples or group of people make contact among themselves using internet to see whether a relationship, romantic or otherwise, may be developed between them. There are number of sites on the internet that provide such online dating service. To get the benefit of such a service, one has to register in one of these sites giving personal details including hobbies, interest, likes and dislikes etc. Photo of a person is also allowed to be uploaded in many of these sites. To select a partner, one could search a site entering different important factors the person feels important for such a selection. These may be like age group, education, location, areas of interest etc. But, this service is generally available to only those persons who are registered with the site. For some sites, registration may be free, others may charge some monthly charges. Some sites may restrict their membership on basis of religion, language, location etc. Because of the development of newer technologies, these sites may provide provision of web casts, online chatting or using message boards.
In case of regular dating, a person goes for date wearing smart clothes trying to look attractive to a place to either to have a snack or dinner or watch a movie. It involves spending some of your time and money. The advantage of going for online dating is that shortage of money and time is not a constraint here. It has another advantage that people are not meeting each other physically and therefore their date remains a private affair and nobody else comes to know about it. You can also date more than one person on line, if you are not very serious about dating or you are not sure about who you want to select as your partner. Other advantage is that your actual identity is not revealed. It also gives you protection from any physical harm that may come your way in case of a physical meeting. Another advantage this dating may be discontinued any time if you do not feel like to go ahead with the relationship. This does not hurt anybody’s feelings either. Online dating has also enabled many shy people to socialize online without any inhibition. Online dating might lead to regular dating. If you really like the person with whom you are dating online, you may like to meet that person face to face and go for regular dating. There are certain online sites that help in this regard by organizing socializing parties amongst its members.
A disadvantage of this kind of dating is that the person with whom you are dating online might have entered fake profile. A ‘she’ may turn out to be a ‘he’. Even 21 year girl may turn out to be a 60 years old lady..