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Internet Dating - Developing Relationships with People You Have Never Met
April 15th, 2008 by StephenPosted in Links, Networking, Web 2.0/Media |
Welcome back! It's good to see you again. Please note that I am now publishing all new material at my hub site: In Context Blog
Another tidbit on the Age of Conversation - by David Armano:
Relationship Renaissance: Can You Handle Internet Dating? - Advertising Age - DigitalNext
We’re All “Internet Dating” Now Well, not so much in the romantic sense, but if you’ve ever known someone who has tried dating over the internet they will describe a phenomenon where you spend a considerable amount of time getting to know another person virtually.Even though you’ve never met them before, you feel intimately connected to them through your interactions and communications online. Then one day you actually meet them in person. The “F2FD-Day” (Face to Face Date Day). And you have a million thoughts racing through your mind. Will they be as you envisioned them? Will the relationship be as rewarding as it was online? Will it be better? Or will you be disappointed? There are similar social experiences that resemble this dynamic happening on a near daily basis across the world.
Bloggers used to call them “Geek Dinners.” More recently, users of the social network called Twitter call them “Tweet-Ups.” Turned off yet? Let’s take this down to the non-tech bare essentials. Below is a quote from my contribution to the collaborative book called “The Age of Conversation”:
“Technology has enabled us to meet our very human wants, needs and desires in new ways. This viewpoint also carries credibility as you can make the case that our behavior is simply evolving over time thanks to recent advancements.
But are we also seeing another Renaissance unfold before our very eyes? A Renaissance built off of us discovering each other? A Renaissance composed of a human web woven through shared knowledge, interests, creativity, and yes, conversation?
Is it simply a resurgence of connectedness and an answer to this question: Am I alone?
The answer is no. You are not alone. There are millions of people out there, just like you. You play an integral role in the Relationship Renaissance. You matter.”
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April 18th, 2008 at 4:13 am
If we take “dating” literally, I advocate meeting in “meat space”, i. e., the real world, as soon as possible.
It helps to adjust your view of your potential significant other. After all, you’re considering to spend an a priori unlimited amount of your time o this earth with that person. This requires the ability to make compromises about the not-so-essential things, in order to enable sharing the essential ones.
If you stay online-only partners for too long, your idealized perception of the other isn’t possibly going to survive the first encounter with reality, IMHO.
April 18th, 2008 at 5:04 am
Good point Rolf, it is amazing the amount of information that we get from a face-to-face encounter. Body language informs so much of our perception of another person.
December 29th, 2010 at 8:38 am
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