How Does Social Media Affect Online Dating

How Online Dating and Social Media Affect Our Relationships We are all connected to one another even if we live thousands of miles apart. With social media, anyone we want to be “friends” with, we can connect with, which is a wonderful way to meet new people, but it is also frightening because people are becoming easy to access. Your Facebook friends are not necessarily the friends you choose to hang out with in your “real” life. It makes the world a bigger place because people feel connected to those they do not know on a personal level. Basically, people are easy to access. Social media is a new component of the world, but it is influencing and reinventing old world concepts, such as love. Social media is heavily influencing relationships

Bandiou says “It is love comprehensively insured against all risks: you will have love, but will have assessed the prospective relationship so thoroughly, will have selected your partner so carefully by searching online –by obtaining, of course, a photo, details of his or her tastes, date of birth, horoscope sign, etc. –and putting it all in the mix you can tell yourself: “This is a risk-free option” (Bandiou 2). According to Bandiou, online dating appears to be “risk free” because choosing a partner is not up to human choice, but is decided by a computerized compatibility test. However, computers are prone to error too and your perfect match does not just appear out of thin air because of a social media

The National Crime Agency says, “Early analysis indicates that the online dating phenomenon has produced a new type of sexual offender. These offenders are less likely to have criminal convictions, but instead exploit the ease of access and arm-chair approach to dating websites. This is aided by potential victims not thinking of them as strangers, but someone they have got to know” (National Crime Agency). The National Crime Agency is basically stating that due to the phenomenon of online dating, sexual predators are praying on unexpected victims who consider the date not with a stranger, but with someone they “know” because online relationships tend to progress more quickly and people feel safer online (National Crime