Lately, I’ve been lamenting the fact that after about a year of living here no one has asked me out in person. (This post is a week late—I met a guy last weekend who asked me out.) I used to get asked out all the time where I was living before; I thought my numbers would go up living in the city. And I thought I’d even want to say yes to the guys who asked.
So I was pleasantly surprised when reading the comments section of some crap article on dating in Salon. A commenter mentioned that online dating has become so pervasive that no one asks people out in person. She mentioned receiving a message from a guy through the online dating site that said he saw her in a café, recognized her from her profile picture, then went home and emailed her! Sure it’s an extreme example, but I’m beginning to wonder if that’s true. If online dating makes it so much easier to ask people out and provides an endless supply of potential dates that doing it the old fashioned way has lost a lot of its appeal. I’ve been doing all this online dating thinking it’s passing the time while I wait for Mr. Right to show up. What if no one bothers showing up anymore?
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