Meeting New People Online

There was a time when meeting new people was something that tended to happen at a dance hall, or in a cafe, or somewhere similar. It was invariably a social setting for we used to live in the real world. The idea of living a virtual life was something that had never occurred to us as even being vaguely possible. It might have happened in science fiction, but not for real people. Well, it does now. Welcome to the world of meeting new people online.

Dating sites have become very popular since their birth in the 1990s. They have developed from simple places where people could exchange information and connect together to places where you can find niche interests that suit you perfectly. There are dating sites that cater for the every day person right up to the busy professional. There are gay and lesbian dating sites, Christian, Jewish and Muslim dating sites, dating sites for various ethnic groups, and more. Meeting new people online has never been easier.

With this in mind, it can be easy to ignore the simple basics of developing a new friendship. What became established in the old order as good and simple etiquette is rapidly being replaced with sloppy and careless ways of meeting and establishing contact with new people. This applies to the offline “real” world increasingly as well. The worrying thing is that we all seem to be accepting it too. Perhaps this is all no more than evolving human development, but something seems not quite right with that idea. Good manners are still good manners, whatever the age.

One example of a new laziness and just plain bad manners is the way that people seem to accept that being late for an appointment is fine, as long as you text ahead to let them know. Someone waiting for a date might receive a text message telling him or her that traffic is bad and that the date is on his or her way. That’s just being rude. Whatever happened to being on time? If someone you have met online has agreed to go out with you at an agreed time, be there on time! There is no good or acceptable excuse.

Just because we have all this technology and easy ways to do things doesn’t mean we have to do them that way. Yes, exchanging photos online is easy with digital photographic technology, but isn’t it so much more fun to exchange actual photos developed on paper? Remember those? When you interact like that you have to be together – not distanced by miles or even hundreds of miles. You have to physically be together. Isn’t that much more romantic?

Meeting new people online is a great way to meet people and start relationships, but don’t then go on to spend your whole relationship in a kind of virtual world. Step back down on to terra firma, which is planet earth by the way; you can find that kind of information in a real physical book, though probably not in an ebook. Meet online by all means, but then start a relationship in the real world if you want to participate in real human relationships.

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