Online Dating

This online article I found talks about online dating and how it can feel like such an existential nightmare. The main argument or point in this article is that traditional dating when it comes to finding someone through friends and parents has now changed to matchmaking sights causing radical individualism. This new form of online dating can essentially be more emotionally tiring. What I mean by that is these matchmaking sights involve individualism, which means you are all alone when searching for a partner. You technically do not have a so called wingman like they would have in traditional dating. For example, you and your best friend go out on a double date to set you up with his girlfriend’s friend. Now, with online dating, you do not have that wingman giving you advice or even putting in a good word for you. This in return makes it emotionally tiring for you to put in all this work yourself. This article from the website https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/07/online-dating-taking-over-everything/594337/ ties into my Parenting and Technology class because technology is the one to blame when it comes to the emotional struggles one encounters when it comes to trying to find the perfect romantic partner.