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We Don't Date Anymore

What ever happened to going on a real date?

Ariel Lefort
Sep 27, 2016
Decatur, Alabama
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We Don't Date Anymore
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Have you ever noticed that kids now a days don’t “date?” We have lost the initial meaning of dating in this day and age.

It’s all about Tinder and POF (Plenty of Fish) now. Kids think that’s how you’re supposed to meet girls or guys. They have forgotten what a real date is, instead of getting to know someone face to face they do it from a phone screen. They think it’s all about how many likes or swipes you get.

Remember how you use to have to go out to meet people and make friends? Where you took a girl out to dinner and went to see a movie? That’s not what it’s like anymore. It’s “meet me at this place” or “I’ll come over and chill.” What happened to “I’ll come get you from your house and we can go out to dinner.”

Truly people have forgotten the true meaning of building a relationship and going on dates. It’s all about who’s the next girl or guy I can “talk” to or who can I get in bed with and brag about to my buddies.

That’s another thing, we don’t date anymore to build a future, we date to fill up time and get rid of the person when you get bored of them then move on to the next like it’s no big deal.

I look at my grandparents who have been together 50 plus years and think what happened to that kind of love, REAL love. Well it’s lost in social media and dating apps now. People back then had no choice but to get out and socialize and actually get to know the person.

Let's get back to the real meaning of dating and stop using people to just occupy time.

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