Online Dating vs Traditional Dating
...n. Through online dating you are able to delve into the mind of the person you have a special relationship with. Their thoughts, past, and feelings are able to be seen through words and painless story telling. When dating a person on the internet, you learn the other’s ideal personality. However, people are not always true to their ideal personality in the way they act in real life. Online dating allows a person to delve into a person’s model personality, but gives little information on the person’s real social and behavioral skills. For example, a man learns how to appeal emotionally to women, but cannot express it in physical form. By turning to the internet, the man can appeal to the woman superficially and his true personality may not reflect what is said online. Traditional dating, however, shows both parties a physical as well as an emotional side of the person. Traditional dating has taken place for many years and is a generally accepted practice. Through real-life dating a person see the other and their body language and composure as they say the things they feel. Through body language and a person’s composure, signs of danger and insincerity are easily able to be picked up. However, on the internet, everything written is monotone and black and white (literally). To understand a person completely, one must know more than the ideal personality of someone. Traditional dating does not always accomplish this quickly, but through time will never fail upon bringing out one’s true self. The computer leaves room for preparation and proofreading of what comes to and from a person and is easily masked. With traditional dating, emphasis is initially placed on aspect of appearance in order to draw two people together. After the initial attraction to one another, the emphasis shifts to personality when interaction begins. This sets up barriers for people if the initial attraction is not there and means of communications, for instance a good word through a friend, are not available. However, online dating does not discriminate. In a chat, everyone in search of a partner is on a level playing field. Emphasis is based purely on personality and therefore a relationship between two people can be based entirely on personality forming a truly agreeable relationship. The fact is that online dating is physically lacking and therefore the relationship created between two people is superficial and artificial. Finally, what traditional and online dating hope to accomplish is completely different. Traditional dating, through experience, teaches the person what to look for in a partner. The conclusion of traditional dating is meeting the ideal person in whom a person feels they can and want to spend the rest of their life with. The conclusion for traditional dating, however, is not as c...