Digital Dating As Fast As Possible
Techquickie
·Techquickie
·2016-05-06
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799 words · ~3 min read
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used to be if someone was looking for that special guy or gal they'd have to put on their spiffiest threads and head
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down to the local Fountain shop to try a bit of personal Congress but kids these
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days are so hyped up on their microwave dinners and tennis shoes that they
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prefer to spend time glued to screens indoors meeting new partners on Facebook
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and dating online well at least that was the idea and the stigma about digital
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dating services all the way back in the Year 2005 but according to the Pew
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Research Center people today generally approve of the idea with approval rates
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rising from approximately 40% to 60%
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between then and 2013 not only that but
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we also saw a decrease from about 30% of those surveyed to 20% for people who
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believed that online dating was only for those extremely desperate types in fact
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digital dating service has become so popular that huge groups of celebrities
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are now openly admitting to using them but why is everyone in their grandmother
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suddenly so turned on to this concept I mean it's not as if celebrities or
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attractive young people have had a hard time finding companionship historically
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a lot of why attitudes have become more comfortable towards online relationships
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seems to be tied to society's increasing positive view of social media use which
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has grown to include nearly three4 of
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all internet users there's also a perception now that digital dating
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services might actually offer more benefits than traditional courtships
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about 60% of Internet users stated online dating was a good way to meet
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people and a little over half when it's far to say that they're better because
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they allow users to find potentially closer matches by opening up their
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Playing Fields this perception that online dating sites and apps offer more
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bang for their Buck is not an incidental one as many
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services brand themselves on their ability to make Superior matches through
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algorithms based on user questionnaires there are also many services which
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specialize in Connecting People of specified societal sex such as those
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seeking members of particular religion ethnicity or a copious range of very
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specified and important criteria and of
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course there are also those Services which allow the less particular of us to
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choose based on simply a user's image and then swipe their finger with
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attitudes towards online dating services on the rise coupled with the facts that
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nearly 2third of All Digital Romantics are successful in landing a date and
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that 11% of those married in the last 10 years met online and have lower Ates of
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divorce it seems apparent that the dinner dates have become an Antiquated
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concept like josting or Optical drives
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well don't exit out and update your dating profiles too fast there are some
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downsides to consider for instance although married couples Faire better
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those in casual relationships which started online tend to do worse also
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half of survey daters felt potential Partners had misrepresented themselves
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online which is pretty good when we consider that 80% of users lie about at
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least one factor of age height or weight
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this is not to mention things like the study which claimed dating algorithms
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are completely bogus or Services which
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aren't necessarily as focused on creating interpersonal commitments as
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much as they are about letting people get around them or rather trying to let
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them in the end the decision between online and traditional dating is best
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left to each individual if a person decides that having a go through that
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stereotypical initial dating phase is better than risking their date not
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turning out to be exactly whom or what they've suggested or vice versa they
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