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I think this may be solving a legitimate problem, but I think you are incorrect that the source of the problem is hollywood. Online dating follows historically
by dbecker 14y ago
I think this may be solving a legitimate problem, but I think you are incorrect that the source of the problem is hollywood.
Online dating follows historically from personals classifieds. Personals ads contained very little information (in part because they had to be so short). This meant you were going on a date with someone you knew nothing about. It was worse than just a blind date... because you didn't even have any common friends to validate the person wasn't a psycho. People (esp. women) who valued their safety tended not to use personals ads, and there was a definite stigma that people who did use it likely had problems.
Though online dating is popular now, I think it was previously viewed as the high-tech version of printed personals ads. So the stigma carried over. It's certainly decreased over time, but I think that history is part of the stigma.
Again, I think you have a potentially viable solution to a problem people care about... even if I disagree on the source of them problem.
- anigbrowl 14y agoHollywood helped to normalize the idea of online dating with Sleepless in Seattle - if it was good enough for tom Hanks and Meg Ryan, then sure, why not? OP comes off as slightly unhinged and blaming the world for his failure to find love.
- Macsenour 14y agoHuh? The two characters met with Tom Hank's son called into a radio program. How is that online dating?
- anigbrowl 14y agoI'm sorry, I meant You've got mail. Both films star Hanks and Ryan.
- Apocryphon 14y agoDidn't they meet randomly in an AOL chatroom?
- ameen 14y agoIf anything, it helps to have a link-bait title. You read it, didn't you?
- nkorth 14y agoUpon seeing the title I was expecting an article about movie piracy. I think this was ultimately more interesting.
- burgreblast 14y ago> Online dating sucks, thanks Hollywood Also, I can't figure out why the alleged Hollywood lie would only impact online dating. Wouldn't all forms of dating affected? Certainly the "fate" aspect of true love isn't exactly new--Rom coms didn't usher in wave of zero dating.