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Dating on the Internet

It has become today's method of communication, the wave of the future. The necessity to leave the home to do such things as shop for clothes or to go to the bank is diminishing. Business is being conducted more frequently from the home. Students will soon be able to interact with their teachers and fellow students while sitting in their bedrooms. The Internet will overtake all forms of personal interaction, and it stands to reason that this includes dating. From foreign pen-pals to heated Cybersex, the number of people who log on each day is growing rapidly. Those who used to race home from school to run outside and play, now race home to meet their best friend in a chat room somewhere; they've never met and yet …show more content…

All this excitement is just the exploration of the new media. (Women's Wire News).

The telephone cut off the absolute need for face-to face discussions, yet society thinks nothing of this today. Rather the telephone is one of the most important forms of communication in our daily lives. After the telephone came the television. Children would come home from school excited because it was time for their favorite show. Parents were worried. Their children were no longer playing with their neighborhood friends. The "Power Rangers" replaced Andy next door, Saturday morning was for "The Smurfs" or "Saved By the Bell," not Jenny and Tammy down the street. Television was 'rotting the brain,' it was 'replacing' socialization. Now the same can be said for computers. Those same kids are racing home to the Internet. They are logging on to their favorite chat rooms and talking to their friends from Australia or South Africa.

With the telephone there was still the ability to engage in personal conversations, but the value of talking face-to-face was diminished. Television is an idle medium. There is no direct interaction, rather children and adults sit and stare at a screen. The Internet brings back interaction, but at the cost of intimacy. The person at the other end of the conversation is a screen, a typed sentence, a random name. There is no voice, no human qualities. Nothing to indicate this is actually a living, breathing being. The progression is there;

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