Online
dating has really impeded relationship building. Online dating back
when it first started was an avenue for a guy and a girl to meet and
talk via the internet, not minding the race, tribe, color, or religion.
It was an open field for networking, having pen pals and so on. People
could communicate with other people from a distant without minding.
Sometimes they arrange to meet in persons (one on one) after months or
years of talking on the internet. I remember back in the earlier days
when people where really hooking up through the internet, It was fun.
I
had many foreign friends who I was really close to through internet. I
remember this particular guy from the States. He would call me every
time and any time, even late at night. Many girls in Nigeria got married
to foreigners through chatting on the internet. It was really a
wonderful experience looking back, until it all changed suddenly.
Internet scammers set in, took advantage of people and stripped them of
everything they had. It was even more shameful when I found out that 70%
of these scammers came from my country.
Online dating has impeded
relationship building because no one knows whom to trust anymore
online, so people are sceptic about finding dates online. Formally, when
you are bored and lonely and cannot find a date around you, the
internet was the best, most private and most conducive place to meet
someone. Now, all that has changed because of scammers. Some people who
went online in search of foreign spouses have lost all or some of their
assets to scammers.
Online dating has become a nightmare to some
online users. Many people have stopped dating who or whom they were
dating online because of fear that they might be talking to the wrong
person. For me, I personally cancelled contact with all my foreign
friends due to fear of not being scammed. It became so bad that no one
wanted to chat with strangers anymore. Since the introduction or
invading of these scammers, statistically the rate of online
relationships have dropped and is still dropping. Its True, online
dating has impeded relationship building. God bless you.
