These days dating seems to be something of the past. It seems as though our generation never learned what it meant to do so. Smart phones are filled with different apps for dating, hooking up, and so many other things. Now don't get me wrong, they have helped a handful of people find something meaningful and worth their time, but eight times out of ten, it just puts you in a crazy situation.
You read these crazy good bios- sometimes- and see promising pictures and talk through a screen until you decide when to meet up, if your conversation makes it that far. The issues with the apps like Tinder and Bumble and the 300 others like it, it is all surface. You base the beginning of your relationships on the pictures and 300 characters. Sure it tells you your mutual friends and any common interest, even though 90 percent of them are from when you liked every page as a middle schooler. Everything about these is superficial.
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I've had my fair share of times on these apps to know that the horror stories you read online about the things that are said are completely true. I can't even count on my two hands how many times somebody has said something sexual to me before asking what I was doing. Now if this is what you are looking for in life, then these are perfect. But, if you want something else, I suggest you look a little further than the free apps at your finger tips.
A couple of months ago I wrote about being single and how I loved it so much, but that doesn't mean that one can't dream or still think about being in the game. I'm just like any other girl, I dream of one day settling down and having a family of my own, but I sure as hell don't want it to be with a guy who thought it was funny to introduce himself with a sexual innuendo and ask me how big my boobs are.
Now most of you are thinking, well why not just delete them and go about it a different way, and yes that would be the easy way to end all of this. The hard part, it feels nice knowing that somebody thought you were cute enough to swipe right too. It's nice seeing that x amount of people thought you were pretty. It makes you feel wanted and that's always nice. It's nice to know that your parents and friends aren't just lying to you and telling you stuff you want to hear.
One day it would be nice if we didn't rely so much on social media or technology to run every aspect of our lives. It would be nice for all of us to work up the courage to talk to people when we see them and not just search for them online just so we can hide behind a screen and not have to be awkward in person. I don't need you to tell me I'm beautiful but damn it's nice to hear it, not just read it.
