Dating in this generation, the digital age, is basically a joke.
These days, there is no such thing as dating without social media being involved. The most popular way of meeting someone is matching with them on Tinder, or "sliding into their DM'S." Even if you didn't meet your significant other on Tinder, or on any other dating site, our relationships are still all over social media for everyone to see.
Admit it.
We live in a generation where it is easier to post our problems or issues with someone all over Facebook and Twitter, rather than sit down and talk to each other face to face. We also feel like it's necessary to post constantly about how great our relationships are, when really, you may be going through a really rough time with your boyfriend/girlfriend. Social media causes problems in relationships, and it definitely doesn't help anything.
Our way of communicating is through text and Snapchat. Some people are better at responding than others, but sometimes slow responses cause arguments and a "loss in trust." Why does it have to be this way? Whatever happened to calling someone? It's really sad that relationships are now so dependent on technology.
Not only does dating suck in the digital age, but dating is even more difficult in college. When you put the digital age and college together, it's just a huge mess. Enough of a mess to make dating not even worth it. In college you have the dreaded "friends with benefits," the typical hookups, and the "I'm not ready for a relationship right now" excuse. Serious relationships, for most people, are not popular in college, especially now that tinder is readily available to everyone.
I understand that college is a time to find yourself and have fun, but things are completely different now than they were in the past.
If you ask anyone from the generations before ours what "talking" meant, they would not be able to answer it the same way that our generation would. Our generation is so caught up on this thing called "talking," which to us, is the thing that happens before we start dating someone officially.
They don't understand it, and neither do I.
What ever happened to face to face conversations? To kind gestures? To going on real dates with someone you like? Instead, we are concerned about how fast the person we are dating texts back and if they post a picture of us on their social media for all of their followers to see.
This is not what dating, love, and relationships are about.
Relationships are about trust, having fun, and having face to face communication. Relationships are not about freaking out because they didn't text you back within a five minute span, or because the person you can't stand liked their picture on Instagram.
I just hope that all of this changes one day and that we realize what we are doing to ourselves. Because I would be very embarrassed if I had to explain to my kids how "dating" worked when I was younger.
