Older generations of people will never be able to understand how modern dating works.
Back in their day, our parents and grandparents met in traditional ways and swapped landline numbers – and somehow managed to create and maintain healthy relationships.
In our day, technology has changed the way we find, make, and keep healthy (or not so healthy) relationships. Below are five ways that technology has resurfaced in our personal lives.
1. Improved Communication
This one is a little controversial because it depends entirely on your definition of communication. If you deem communication as simply a way to correspond with each other, then technology has something great to offer you.
No more postal service or landline calls, these days you can instantly get messages and calls across the globe – with very little to hold you back.
2. Dating Apps
Dating apps are all around us. From the big name famous ones to the lesser-known ones that target niche markets like hobbies and pastimes. Dating apps remove the need to go out in public in your best business attire, which means that they received a lot of love during the beginning of the pandemic.
The boom in dating sites was inevitable – our modern lives don’t leave us much room or time to go out and physically meet people – and that’s where swiping right or left comes in. With that simple action, you can convey your interest in another person and strike up a conversation.
3. Personality Tests
Before personality tests, people relied on old-fashioned ways to get to know people, like overtime – gross, yes?
Modern technology allows you to discover what personality type you are and gives you tips on how to go about selecting your perfect partner. For example, IFSP characters are generally more laid-back and nurturing, which means that they love to take care of their partners.
Personality tests help you determine what characteristics you possess and what to look for to complement them.
4. Social Media
Before the advent of social media, most of our social lives were low-key and restricted to our immediate area. As much as social media has been great for vapid things like self-validation and ego boosts, it has also allowed us to connect and reconnect with people from around the world.
That is not to say that self-validation is not important, it just means that social media isn’t the healthiest place to look for that. Use social media responsibly; screen time is both a relationship builder and a relationship killer.
5. Matching Agencies
Back in the 50s through to the early 90s, most relationships started organically, and nearly everyone had a super cute story of how they met. Since the late 1990s, dating and matching services have cropped up all over the world, all offering the same promise – a lifetime of love.
Being able to contract the services of a professional match-maker is something totally wild and yet extremely beneficial for introverts and extroverts alike. Most of us don’t know what we need from a potential partner, but a match-maker will, and you can thank technology for that!
