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Mee#ng your significant other in the 21st century: Smiling, winking and nudging without even leaving your home.
The world is more interconnected than it has ever been before … 9/10 people have a mobile phone* 14 million Canadians log onto Facebook every day*
& the 16 hours people are awake a day, they check phones 150 Fmes*
We have become so overwhelmingly connected to our gadgets that we have become pancake people – spread thin across many plaJorms which demand our aKenFon*
“Of the 54 million single people living in the United States, 40 million of them have tried online da#ng at one point or another.”(8)
Not only do we juggle various types of informaFon all day long using technology – we are now using it to search for our life partners in all corners of the world (7)
The Size up
“Of those who are single and looking, more than 38% of them have used daFng sites or mobile daFng apps – leaving the daFng service industry worth a whopping $2.2 Bn in revenue this year alone” (8)
Although interacFon online can strengthen a relaFonship, one must wonder about the effect online daFng has on us, and on society.
What effect are our new daFng habits having on our social behaviours, and how is this growing daFng trend impacFng the way we meet new people?
In addiFon, how can we expect to evolve, grow & adapt our relaFonships when the way we are supposed to be creaFng them is
constantly changing?
…Today’s da#ng scene is the lazy way around mee#ng people and it is affec#ng our social skills & exposing us to risky environments
1. “Today, resorFng to filling out quesFonnaires to find someone is the impaFent and lazy way out” (6)
“People are avoiding face to face contact by simply reverFng to their phones to find a life partner” (6)
Instead of signing up for a daFng site to find a hookup, one could always go to a bar or somewhere else where inhibiFons are lower.
Instead of signing up for a daFng site to find a hookup, one could always go to a bar or somewhere else where inhibiFons are lower. (6)
There are mul#ple cases of sexual predators online & even murderers – people are constantly finding links to these offenders on popular da#ng sites (10)
“Many (students) overlook the fact that online profiles can easily contain false informa#on or lack thereof — providing misleading informaFon from height and weight to an unknown criminal record.” (10)
3. People are using the online daFng scene as as an ego boost -‐ or a quick interacFon with someone else (9)
“Most of the lazy communicaFon via text serve 4 purposes: • To arrange to get together
(read: hook up)
• To get a quick ego stroke • To quickly water her ‘aQen#on
garden’ so that she would conFnue to dangle on the hook.” (9)
What ever happened to genuine interac#on, courtesy, respect, care, trust, in#macy? “These things are not dead or old” (9)
Online DaFng has evolved from the users being those who are unable to find a partner in real life, to simply an “easier” way to meet people
In many ways, online daFng serves as an ego boost for people, constantly being showered in online compliments with liKle concern for actually meeFng anyone
Not only does this raise a concern for our socializaFon skills in the future, it also raises a safety concern about online predators
Sources Course Material: 1. The New, Improved Online Friendship. New York Magazine. 2015. By Kyle Chayka [online] 2. Sorry to be rude, but my smartphone needs my aKenFon. The Globe and Mail. By Leah
Eichler. [e-‐reserves] 3. I Had a Nice Time With You Tonight. On the App. The New York Times. By Jenna
Wortham. 2014. [e-‐reserves] 4. Impression management through communicaFon in online daFng. By Douglas Zytko.
2014 [e-‐reserves]or [PDF] 5. Tinder, the Fast-‐Growing DaFng App, Taps an Age-‐Old Truth. The New York Times. By Nick
Bilton. 2014 [e-‐reserves] Non Course Material 6. “Online DaFng Just Lazy Way around Socializing -‐ The Daily Cougar." The Daily Cougar ICal. 4
Dec. 2013. Web. 12 June 2015. 7. Best UK Tinder AlternaFves: 5 Fiery DaFng Apps You Should Check Out Today." Lifehacker
UK. Web. 12 June 2015. 8. Press, Associated. "The DaFng App GeneraFon: From Tinder to Hinge, How Milliennials
Crave Speed and Simplicity When It Comes to Finding Love." Mail Online. Associated Newspapers, 20 May 2014. Web. 12 June 2015.
9. Raising Your DaFng Standards: Why You Shouldn't Be OK with Lazy CommunicaFon via Text, Email Etc." Baggage Reclaim by Natalie Lue. 18 Jan. 2011. Web. 12 June 2015.
10. Your Security Resource." The Dangers of Internet DaFng. Web. 12 June 2015. * Some stats also taken from Module 1&2 course video