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| The art of (internet) dating - year 2020 |
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| Ed.Kloonk:
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| floobydust:
Another big part of the problem is the dating apps and websites all conspire to get more money from users. Fake profiles, fake communications to bait a person into getting a paid subscription, with no cancellation or charge backs once you realize it's a sexy looking scammer or a bot sending you messages. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is suing Match Group ($24B market cap) which owns Match.com (also Tinder, Hinge, Match, PlentyOfFish, Meetic, OkCupid, OurTime, Pairs) for using fake love interest ads to persuade consumers to pay for subscriptions, from 2013-2018. It was $62M but they didn't settle I think. http://match.mediaroom.com/2019-09-25-Match-Responds-to-FTC-lawsuit |
| james_s:
--- Quote from: Ed.Kloonk on January 26, 2020, 02:11:55 am ---Not really. Those with 50+ years of marriage are likely to be victims of shotgun marriages. The baby came along and you had no time to sit around in front of the TV that tells you how much you should hate your spouse. Ask any middle aged married man if the woman he married is the same as the woman he dated. Then ask that woman if her man has changed at all. --- End quote --- I've known a handful of people who stayed happily married for decades, of course both people changed but that doesn't mean they felt differently about each other. It seems to be a minority but they are out there. Both of my grandparents and both of my partner's grandparents stayed married until death and none of them were forced into it. It's too soon to say whether the internet will change anything as the internet as we know it today hasn't been around long enough. Doesn't always happen of course, the reasons for that being widely varied. Sometimes they got married for the wrong reasons, other times they changed with age and were no longer compatible. I don't think it's necessarily a bad thing to go separate ways if things are really not working out, though I do think people who have committed ought to put in a good effort to make it work but really it's not of my business. None of that has anything to do with the internet. |
| SilverSolder:
--- Quote from: james_s on January 26, 2020, 04:35:52 am --- --- Quote from: Ed.Kloonk on January 26, 2020, 02:11:55 am ---Not really. Those with 50+ years of marriage are likely to be victims of shotgun marriages. The baby came along and you had no time to sit around in front of the TV that tells you how much you should hate your spouse. Ask any middle aged married man if the woman he married is the same as the woman he dated. Then ask that woman if her man has changed at all. --- End quote --- I've known a handful of people who stayed happily married for decades, of course both people changed but that doesn't mean they felt differently about each other. It seems to be a minority but they are out there. Both of my grandparents and both of my partner's grandparents stayed married until death and none of them were forced into it. It's too soon to say whether the internet will change anything as the internet as we know it today hasn't been around long enough. Doesn't always happen of course, the reasons for that being widely varied. Sometimes they got married for the wrong reasons, other times they changed with age and were no longer compatible. I don't think it's necessarily a bad thing to go separate ways if things are really not working out, though I do think people who have committed ought to put in a good effort to make it work but really it's not of my business. None of that has anything to do with the internet. --- End quote --- The reasons people stay together (or not) probably haven't changed as a result of the advent of the Internet. All it has done is made it easier (in some ways) to find someone... but at the same time, also more difficult (much more choice?). Seems to me that you are always more likely to meet / fall in love with someone that "exists locally" to you... there is a large element of randomness in the game of life. |
| Karel:
When couples marry, ... men think that their wife will not change. That is not going to happen! ... women think that their man will change. That is not going to happen either! |
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