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Courtship in the modern times?!?
Ask your grandparents sometime… they’ll make it very clear just how much the game has changed. Hell, even a chat with your folks will throw some light on the gaping chasm that has opened up in just one generation. We are of course talking about modern courtship - or in many ways the lack of it.
Where your grandparents may have spied each other at the town dance and your parents may have bumped into on another at a Blue Light disco, you’re modern options of finding romance include everything from speed dating nights to Myspace networking to romantic texting. When you think about it, the once simple process of attraction and interaction has been splintered into a thousand high-tech shards; so how do we make that connection in such a crazy environment?
Well really it’s about finding the options that will work for you… Thankfully it’s no longer about necessity, knowing the town’s yearly dance will be the only chance to meet a potential partner for another twelve months isn’t a problem our generation is faced with. So, look around, breakdown your lifestyle and work out what plan of attack will most complement the way you live.
Online dating
Any stigma associated with online dating is cold and dead in the ground. With a massive cross section of society dating online now, the results have well and truly proved the forum as a successfully, workable tool for singles.
Sites like Yes Dating have made it easier than ever before to peruse the field without having to get out of your jim jams; of course the ultimate function of online sites is to facilitate contact, so you will have to front up and throw yourself out there… just like nana and pop at the town hall, all those years ago!
Speed Dating
If Speed Dating isn’t the ultimate reflection of the times we live in then the ice caps aren’t melting! Got too much on your plate? No time to meet new people? Well can ya spare six minutes? Can ya? Well for those strapped for seconds in the day speed dating will most likely be a curious and beneficial option.
You sit down with someone for six minute, ask them a bunch of question and answer theirs, then you simply move onto the next catch. It’s fast, fun and by the end of the night you may have met two ro three genuine candidates. Companies like Fastmatch have been in the game for a decade and have got it down to quite the fine art. Definitely worth a look.
Romance from Space
If it isn’t enough that the big dating sites are roaming every inch of the online domain, they are now going into space in order to hook up the singles of Earth! Believe it folks; some sites are actually incorporating GPS technology into their systems offering users message alert services to notify them when singles matching their preferences are in their area. Imagine, you’re in a nightclub when you receive a message… “Chris, 24, thin, interested in Tai-Chi, Sports and cooking is within 100 meters of you and available for contact – number”. Talk about taking the moment by the scruff of the neck. Such technology would really put the spontaneity back in hi-tech romance!
Myspace/Facebook
There really hasn’t been a precedent for the new wave of internet socializing and therefore there is yet to be any real measurement of its effects. There is arguments on both sides of the fence as to whether it’s reach and networking power is outweighed by the diminishing time we spend speaking to each other in the real world. Handshakes and kisses are quickly taking a back seat to online profiles and blog posts. The ability to make contact with people through these mediums really is quite powerful but the context of the contact is poorly defined, where as on a dedicated dating site, the intent is clear. So until these online worlds evolve a little more they may well remain a clumsy format for anything other then keeping up with established friends and making fleeting contact with new folk.
The real world
Just when you thought to have romance in your life you had to have a laptop and an ISP the tables are turned. There is a definite renaissance in real world romance and the rules are as simple as they ever were.
Just think about it, with so many of us perfecting key strokes instead of icebreakers, how many people out there will have genuine skills in a face to face situation… not many. So be that person, hit the bar with some friends and when you see that new face that really makes you stop, have the pluck to wander over and say hi.
Ask your grandparents sometime… they’ll tell you how it all worked; and armed with some inside tips from romance veterans like that you’re as good as in!
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