Sir Albert Einstein, while explaining what relativity is, once said, “Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That’s relativity.” Analysing Einstein here, we can say that time spend with one’s partner is always less and never enough. Meeting each other and to go out for a long drive or a walk is always exciting. But as the world has developed technologically, meeting in person has been gradually replaced by virtuosity. Kingson Chingakham gives an account about the advent of dating apps and how it has replaced the age-old tradition of dating and pushed the entire concept towards oblivion.
A decade ago, dating apps hardly existed. Everyone entered into a relationship organically. That was not the age when you were dating someone but still swiped (looked for) to check out more options. That was the era when technology did not reach (invade) the private space.
The availability of dating apps has developed the perception that ‘apps have simplified the nature of dating’. In reality, it has become even more difficult. Now, people do not meet in person to see whether they want to go out on a date or not. They now choose from the plenty of options available on the various apps and show up on the dating day. As a consequence, a lot of people suffer from the paradox of choice- too many choices, too many decisions, too little time to do what is really important.
Competition of Numbers
It has become a trend to go on multiple dates taking all the available options.This might be exciting at the outset, but the sad truth is that the addiction to these apps has resulted in the inability to give 100 percent attention to a single person. This is worrisome because you cannot know one person properly when you are dating multiple others.
Alicia, a British national working in Delhi, sharing her experience with dating apps said, “These apps have made dating far more exhausting and it consumes a lot of time as well. Still, I open the apps to swipe left and right. I have gone on four dates in one week just to find the ‘Prince Charming’. But I just wasted my time and money by over consuming alcohol in all those four dates. I pledged to be pickier but it is getting harder.”
Future Of Dating
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