When was the last time you went out on a date? I’m talking face-to-face awkward conversation over a decently priced meal type of thing. Does the college atmosphere inhibit people from going out on dates? I mean, it is so much easier to go to a party and maybe have a drink or two, talk to somebody you find attractive and MAYBE get their number. But hey, it’s a lot easier to slip in their DMs and ask what they’re doing later.
I might have to blame social media for the lack of verbal communication. Everyone we would want to talk to is a click away on Instagram or Facebook. With that being said, people know a lot about each other without ever meeting in person.
In a recent article by Philip Karahassan he makes an excellent point that “Meeting someone used to be a unique experience in itself. The story of meeting to be regaled throughout one’s relationship, the look, the spark, the connection which defined the early stages of the relationship. Technology has made our world faster passed and people want to spend as little time as possible looking for someone. They want dating to work around their lives in a time efficient way. Taking a way the organic human nature of meeting someone in favour of ticking the ‘relationship’ box.”
The fact you can make your relationship status on Facebook “its complicated” says a lot about the time we live in today. Social media makes everything complicated, especially if you go to a college where there’s a connection to knowing just about everyone. Chances are when you go on a date you’re going to run into somebody you know which takes away from the privacy and intimacy. Nobody likes being judged by other people especially when you know you’re being judged by the person across the table from you that you barely know.
To hide from these awkward encounters asking somebody out on a date in college is simply becoming a thing of the past. In my opinion a guy that is assertive enough to ask a girl out on a date (or vice versa) is a keeper. So boys and girls, stop caring what people think and go out on a date!
Source: http://www.psychalive.org/how-technology-is-changing-dating/
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