Article Subject: Log off from online love

Article Link: http://www.columbiaspectator.com/2011/02/17/signing

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Dr. Dato’s Brief:

This post is by Dino Grandoni who is senior major at Columbia University studying economics-political science and shares his views in online dating.

Although Mr. Grandoni describes some of his experiences well from other college friends and associates who have tried online dating and failed, he is not looking at the bigger picture of online dating. I agree on his view that when on campus there is plenty of scope to meet like-minded individuals of the opposite sex and the requirements to look for dating outside of the campus is not really necessary.

This fact maybe true of college campus but the outside world is far removed from this and I have seen this happen to me when moving off campus to the company work place for the first time. Without appearing disrespectful to Mr. Grandoni but the working life has many challenges that young students are yet unaware of. For starters, you find you have significant bills to pay, taxes to go through, people you cannot relate to, work issues etc. and this takes a bit getting used to from the previous student life that we are accustomed to.

I would go as far to say that those people are the ones who have found online dating as a medium for connecting with other people. Take for example, the popularity of facebook, from the face of it (no pun intended) the site has droves of people who are coming to it by the numbers. I sometimes wander why they don’t put the same energy into their real social life. I have seen people who I know are perfectly content to ‘open up’ and put all kinds of information that goes on in their minds but when it comes to the real world they keep tight-lipped about it. This is the way online social sites are changing our behavior and no doubt online dating will have a similar look and feel….encouraging everyone to share our deepest thoughts which we wouldn’t necessarily do in public but hopefully someone, somewhere out there will.

facebook popularity could be that it brings out the inner being in ourselves