The recent article on NY Times calling dating an obsolete trend in the modern era raised questions on change in the style of singles meeting up these days. NY time posted this article under the category FASHION was enough to raise a few alarms.

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With the series of examples from women coming from various background and class in the society all agree to the fact that it’s more of a social or group event can be termed as “hooking up / hanging out”. Particularly men are not putting efforts into making it a date. Their approach towards dating is too casual and has become the biggest turn off for women.

The Smartphones and texting habits are making all this worse. NY Times finds out that guys are not even reaching out to female properly in the preferred way to ask a date has become a sort of test message.

Jumpdates think that their point is valid but, it’s definitely not the end of dating and it’s the evolution of the way single men and women interact. It is still in the evolutionary phase and these singles are trying various means before finding which is more convenient.