Evolution Of Online Dating

The evolution of the Internet through time gave rise to computer-mediated relationships. Computer-mediated communication is a development in the telecommunication where people made use of the Internet to communicate and connect with people. Various social networks are built in the Internet. The Internet has provided easy access to communication beyond the limits of time and space. Starting from e-mails, communicating online had transitioned to different websites and applications that cater to different interests and needs─ blogs, social networking sites, chat rooms, discussion forums, online games and etc. One of the unique environments made in the Internet is the online dating.

Online dating in the Philippines has started with websites catering

Dating through Tinder is quick and easy. You can get a match while waiting for your turn at a grocery or at the bus on your way home. The mutual friends feature adds more to the possibility of choosing the best to swipe left or right as you associate the mutual friends with the Tinder user. The fear of getting “friend-zoned” is not a problem as a user wouldn’t know you like him unless he likes you back. Though Tinder can be fun and entertaining, it can also be “sex-focused”, people who are looking for serious and stable relationships are outside of their market. It can also be a wild game where you need to keep up with the fast interaction inside the world of Tinder. Hundreds of matches are made every day; who you are talking to right now can be interested to another person in a few minutes. You always have to step up your game. Aside from that, Tinder also has issues on safety. People you meet in Tinder isn’t always who they really are. They might build up profiles to impress people and get many matches even though they’re not really the person they present their self to

Has it affected relationship formation among men and women? Taking Marshall McLuhan’s Media Ecology and Technological Determinism “the medium is the message”, Tinder may have a certain effect on how men and women perceive relationships and communication as they go through a different process of meeting someone. If Tinder promotes a market of sex, is it really used by the people for sex? Barnett Pearce and Vernon Cronen’s Coordinated Management of Meaning’s social construction states that people in conversation co-construct their own realities and shape their own worlds. The users of Tinder may have constructed some world that will be discovered by the end of this study. These questions are focused on men and women from Baguio City who have been using Tinder for a year and more. They will be interviewed one by one with a similar set of guide questions. Their answers will be analyzed through Marshall McLuhan’s Media Ecology and Technological Determinism and Barnett Pearce and Vernon Cronen’s Coordinated Management of