By: Kourtney Webb
Dating today for many people seems like an endless road to no where fast. Research shows more people are focusing increasingly more on career and self success and less interested in dating and getting married.
In order to combat the dating blues More people are turning to social media as a way to meet potential partners.
Using the internet to flirt, research potential partners, and check up on old flames have all become more common in recent years. 15 percent of social media users have asked someone out on a date according to the Pew Research Center.
Summer Hudson, from Florida, met her husband on the social networking app Instagram, after commenting on one of his posts. She says social media could be a great outlet for a real connection because it gives you a different way to interact with people you already know you have things in common with.
“If you are at least able to be honest about who you are and find someone honest about about who they are, I think it could be a great tool to find a potential match,” said Hudson.
People put almost every aspect of their lives online for the world to see. Vacation pictures, engagement announcements, and even new born babies make it onto the timelines of followers.
The study done by the Pew Research Center proved that many people also live out their relationships through social networking sites. 45 percent of users post pictures of dates and details about their partners.
Thanks to social media, others can learn almost anything about someone’s life just by looking at their profile. Psychologist Richard Pounds, from Montclair, New Jersey said relationships that begin online can become successful due to the simple fact that the couple already knows things about each other.
“I’m talking about mutually understanding intimacy, I am not talking about sex. But about people being vulnerable and getting to know each other, expressing their feelings and really understanding each other on a deeper level other than the physical.”
“People that begin talking online rather than in a traditional face to face meeting get to open up more and just talk, without the fear of having it turn into a one-night stand.”
Couples who meet on social media sites are more likely to be satisfied with their marriages than those who meet in other ways.
Jenna Ortiz, a hair stylist, from Arizona conversed with her boyfriend for two years on Facebook before they met in person. Facebook connections may scare a few people who watch the popular television show Catfish, which documents the online romances of couples that more times than not go awry. But Ortiz says there are a lot of people that have had positive experiences meeting online. Not everyone pretends to be something they’re not.
“I feel like because me and my boyfriend followed each other we knew things about each other already, we had a lot in common. So we knew that off the bat we had things to talk about. When you meet people in person you know nothing about them,” said Ortiz.
Studies show more people tend to feel closer to their spouse or partner thanks to technology. Earlier research found that people who were married between the years 2005 and 2012 who met through social networks, were more satisfied with their relationships than those who first met face to face, reports Live Science.
Summer Hudson said love can be found online and she and her husband are proof.
“The advantage to being on social media for him and I was that we relied solely on communication. It wasn’t about the physical aspect of our relationship. We had to make it work because we liked talking to each other.”
“So we actually got to know one another’s personality first, which made it our relationship even better. We know now, especially being married that our communication is amazing.”
Researchers at the National Academy of Sciences said virtual meetings are becoming more common as a third of married couples who have met online tend to be happier in relationships than couples who met offline.
Dating today for many people seems like an endless road to no where fast. Research shows more people are focusing increasingly more on career and self success and less interested in dating and getting married.
In order to combat the dating blues More people are turning to social media as a way to meet potential partners.
Using the internet to flirt, research potential partners, and check up on old flames have all become more common in recent years. 15 percent of social media users have asked someone out on a date according to the Pew Research Center.
Summer Hudson, from Florida, met her husband on the social networking app Instagram, after commenting on one of his posts. She says social media could be a great outlet for a real connection because it gives you a different way to interact with people you already know you have things in common with.
“If you are at least able to be honest about who you are and find someone honest about about who they are, I think it could be a great tool to find a potential match,” said Hudson.
People put almost every aspect of their lives online for the world to see. Vacation pictures, engagement announcements, and even new born babies make it onto the timelines of followers.
The study done by the Pew Research Center proved that many people also live out their relationships through social networking sites. 45 percent of users post pictures of dates and details about their partners.
Thanks to social media, others can learn almost anything about someone’s life just by looking at their profile. Psychologist Richard Pounds, from Montclair, New Jersey said relationships that begin online can become successful due to the simple fact that the couple already knows things about each other.
“I’m talking about mutually understanding intimacy, I am not talking about sex. But about people being vulnerable and getting to know each other, expressing their feelings and really understanding each other on a deeper level other than the physical.”
“People that begin talking online rather than in a traditional face to face meeting get to open up more and just talk, without the fear of having it turn into a one-night stand.”
Couples who meet on social media sites are more likely to be satisfied with their marriages than those who meet in other ways.
Jenna Ortiz, a hair stylist, from Arizona conversed with her boyfriend for two years on Facebook before they met in person. Facebook connections may scare a few people who watch the popular television show Catfish, which documents the online romances of couples that more times than not go awry. But Ortiz says there are a lot of people that have had positive experiences meeting online. Not everyone pretends to be something they’re not.
“I feel like because me and my boyfriend followed each other we knew things about each other already, we had a lot in common. So we knew that off the bat we had things to talk about. When you meet people in person you know nothing about them,” said Ortiz.
Studies show more people tend to feel closer to their spouse or partner thanks to technology. Earlier research found that people who were married between the years 2005 and 2012 who met through social networks, were more satisfied with their relationships than those who first met face to face, reports Live Science.
Summer Hudson said love can be found online and she and her husband are proof.
“The advantage to being on social media for him and I was that we relied solely on communication. It wasn’t about the physical aspect of our relationship. We had to make it work because we liked talking to each other.”
“So we actually got to know one another’s personality first, which made it our relationship even better. We know now, especially being married that our communication is amazing.”
Researchers at the National Academy of Sciences said virtual meetings are becoming more common as a third of married couples who have met online tend to be happier in relationships than couples who met offline.