Comparing On-Line Dating With Blind Dating
Your friend has decided that you need help with your social life so she sets you up with a blind date, a friend of a friend of a friend. You, foolishly, accept. Now there you are.
You arrive to your first blind date. Your friend told you that Jack is a great catch, and “kind of cute”. You are at the restaurant door and a big guy walks over to you. He introduces himself to you as “Jack”. The girls did not tell you that Jack looks like Baby Huey. You both go back to the table where Jack had been waiting for you.
As you begin talking, you realize that Jack knows the weekly TV schedule verbatim. You haven’t sat through a movie in months because you run marathons and volunteer at the local food bank. He says, “Volunteering is a waste of time because you can’t help those people, anyway.
You look at your watch, see that it’s only been 10 minutes since you last looked at it the last time. You wonder how long it is before you can gracefully remove yourself from this situation. Been there?
Now imagine a date with someone you met through internet dating and have been chatting online with and exchanging emails with for quite some time.
Many on-line services will not only allow you to see a picture, exchange emails and converse over the phone with someone where there is mutual interest, but with some, you can also see a video of your potential friend. Before you meet in person, you have been talking for a while, you know each other, and have now both decided to take the next logical step, a physical meeting.
You both know a lot about the other before you meet. You both enjoy beaches. You both love travel and children. Neither one of you is a couch potato, and you both have extroverted personalities. Your first physical meeting is a great success for both of you.
With blind dating your friends choose your date for you, thinking they know who you are looking for. With online dating you choose your potential friends yourself, based on pictures, emails and sometimes videos. Since time today is such a precious commodity, we need to be as efficient as we possibly can be, with it.
Which one would you rather have?