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So let's forget about blogs for a moment and lets write about dating. Yes, dating. According to Time Magazine online dating is a $500 million industry. But it is not only the Internet that is making profits with dating, is also cell phone services. You can find all kind of services with your cell phone that will guide you to your soul mate.
But that's not all, Comcast Cable customers can watch video profiles and then log through hurrydate.com to contact the one you found attractive. There are plenty of resources you can use to find a date, friend, girlfriend or boyfriend.
But I ask myself a question, are we really that desperate and that lonely? Yes, technological dating is making profits but how is people dealing with the idea that the Internet and the cell phone will be the savior when searching for company. Technology has help in many things, science, jobs, industry etc.. But in our personal lives has it really helped?
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Maybe it helps some people, maybe it gets others in bad situations, maybe it doesn't work at all. but bothers me, though, is that it seems like nothing is sacred anymore. Commercialized dating? Speed dating and hurry dating? Aren't we supposed to take time to get to know one another, believe in destiny and soul mates, and isn't love supposed to transcend money? What happens to our culture courtship becomes a commodity?
But years ago, when dorms were first becoming co-ed, the previous generation freaked out, concerned that there would no longer be mystery in the courtship - how could you fall in love with someone when you saw them before they had showered or brushed their teeth in the morning? That generation also saw the co-ed movement as taking something sacred from our culture, and we survived.
7:56 PM
I too am surprised that internet dating is a $500 million industry.
It would seem like it would be hard to make something personal, like dating, possible over an impersonal internet.But you know eBay works, and it's an impersonal way of selling.
And as we get busier and busier, we look to technology to increase our productivity. Maybe it helps some people get dates who otherwise might not. Are people too busy to date? I hope not.
Whenever I open my hotmail, I get this advertisement for an online dating service that says: "We screen for marrieds." That disturbing, and funny at the same time.
Yet it's another reason why none of that $500 million will never be from me.
8:09 PM
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