I had heard that stat several times. Pew Research found that 53% of young people met their partner online and 336 million people worldwide are now using them.
My husband and I met the old-fashioned way; through our parents, in person.
My son found his wife through a dating app. He was very clear in his profile: white conservative Christian male seeks conservative Christian female for serious relationship culminating in marriage. He put his profile picture up along with his Trump gear.
Three weeks later, a lovely young lady with long blonde hair and pretty blue eyes contacted him. They talked for several hours, met for their first date, and that was it. He’s a traditional masculine man and she’s a traditional feminine woman; it was a perfect fit. Two years later, they were married. It helps that they were both “as advertised.”
You’re right that folks need to be careful. But at 18, on your first-ever date, you’re a bundle of nerves thinking about how much fun you are going to have at an amusement park, not that some psycho and his creepy girlfriend are luring you there to kill you.
Evil has always stalked mankind.
At times it is worse than others.
Cell phones are brainwashing our children. I just got my grand daughter’s phone fixed for her today. Had to replace a broken screen. She is 12, going on 18.
I also put her laptop in the shop, it will be fixed by Thursday. School will start soon. I’m a good electronic tech, but laptops are very specialized, so I would not touch this one.
Built my first PC in 1982, have always loved technology. But today it is designed so you cannot fix anything and you don’t know what they are collecting about you.
It is no longer about what you want, it is what they have built into the system to make them a buck.
We are being destroyed by complexity, complexity that is not necessary.