Dating online vs dating offline: Pros and cons!

Published on August 1, 2024 | Published By: shahid | In Dating , Interesting Facts

Digital world has pervaded every sphere of our life and captured it. Dating apps have been around for many years. But now, people are getting bored of it and many are unable to get their right person online. They have started trying meeting people in person to find their right match.

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The dating apps and dating online

Dating apps are online dating services that are provided via a mobile application. These apps started more than a decade and half ago. By 2009, already there were several dating apps in the market. These slowly but steadily entered into the lives of the young people as well as the old singles. Now, in the USA, they have become mainstream way of finding your love partners. This method is used by majority of the young population to meet their love. It is predicted that by 2040, it would be useful for 70% of the couples.

The apps were meant for easier and faster find of prospective partners. They use the GPS technology to provide you with options that are nearer to home. You can filter, choose, flirt, chat, or meet your future partners online. During the COVID pandemic, these apps helped many people to not feel lonely and also find their romantic matches.

But every technology comes with its own problems. Similarly, dating online also suffers from its own limitations.

Limitations of online dating

Though faster and easier, online dating does not have the same fun as of meeting people in person and talking to them and knowing them. It could lead to mismatches and also boredom. Moreover, some may not be able to find their match even after several log-ins.

There are also the issues of frauds and cheating in the online business. It carries its own risks which might even leave you with disasters, emotional trauma and a lighter wallet. Some users also find that there is no civility on these apps.

Hence, there are an increasing number of young people who are giving up dating apps such as Tinder and starting to attend social events like before in order to find their romantic partner.

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Ali Jackson is one such woman who was single for many years and found no match for herself on the dating apps. Hence, she decided to search online by attending a minimum of two social gatherings a month. First, she started with speed dating parties and single mixers. But that was not much fun. She then began attending non-dating social get-togethers and it gave her more pleasure. She could meet people from different walks of life and discuss with them. And in all this, she also found her boyfriend.

What Ali Jackson says?

Ali who is a relationship coach states:

“I feel very strongly that one of the reasons that we clicked so well is because, at least on my end, I was just hanging,”

She feels that she was there to socialize and finding romance was a bonus point. Ali added:

“I wasn’t thinking about how I was coming across or trying to meet someone.”

There are many such singles who have reached their breaking point with the dating apps and opting out of them. The Forbes Health/OnePoll survey revealed that 79% of the Gen Z participants had symptoms of burnout on these apps. They could take them no more. People are urging users to delete these apps from their mobiles. And this has resulted in the market value of the apps to decline.

Relationship expert, Susan Winter advises people to delete the apps and try to find love offline. She adds that one should attend social events and communicate. Don’t look for love but love will find you there.

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