Online Dating The internet provides society with a wide selection of things to do, people to communicate with and items to purchase. It is important to pause occasionally and examine how this invention has both helped and hindered people since its use became so widespread. The purpose of this essay is to examine how this online platform affects the practice of dating. This essay will argue that the dating rituals of past times are no longer being practiced in the same way, rather online dating has created new and dramatic effects that alter the way society is constructed.

Social activity often requires people leaving their homes and going out to meet others. This live interaction, as it still does, provides opportunities for people to perform courting and mating rituals. This live interaction gives each other an opportunity to get a good feel for what someone is like in many different ways.

Although people still meet in person the online dating scene has produced...

Digital dating is a process in which dating rituals are performed online, where meeting and talking digitally replace in person communication. As a result, the internet has opened up many new possibilities where love can be found in very distance places. Park (2012) noticed that "the industry has been successful, of course and popular: while only 3% of Americans reported meeting their partners online in 2005, that figure had risen to 22% for heterosexual couples and 6% for same-sex couples by 2007-09. Digital dating is now the second most common way that couples get together, after meeting through friends. " As you can see this trend seems to be growing.
There are many good aspects of online dating that has helped grow this trend's popularity in such large numbers. The ability to connect with anyone around the world provides many new possible mates that were never available before. People from all over the world are…