For me, this is a very thought-provoking question
For someone as myself, born at the beginning of the 1970s, I, by my very nature, have witnessed the times changing, and, now we have reached the second decade of the 21st century, it’s really all about the ‘next generation’ dominating in the fast-paced, social media and digital age – in virtually everything – including in dating and romance
With so many dating and social media applications out there – Tinder, Badoo, Twoo, Plenty-of-Fish.com (the list is endless) my feelings are that, it does seem that the Art of old-fashioned dating and romance is more of less ‘The Age of yesteryear’
I really do ‘feel’ that everything now is about, (not-so-much) dating the person, but more about ‘dating their ego or popularity’ on their social media profile; no doubt, what I am saying can be deemed as ‘very subjective and even controversial’ but I am sure there are many out there, especially in my age group, who may very well agree with me!
It becomes more of a significance, when you are looking for a young, intelligent and attractive woman who is born on or after 1990; she will be born into, and ‘more often than not’ influenced by the digital and social media age – this is even true when we are ‘generally’ talking about ‘Eastern society’ young woman, let alone Western society young women
The digital age has such a stranglehold on our entire world, that it does have a strong enough influence, even on Eastern society young women too (to a lesser effect than on Western society young women) – who see more of the traditional values of traditional gender roles
I feel that it is ‘more’ of a challenge to both attract a young lady and offer something different, from the heavy influences of much distraction of the social media age – it really does take an effort to woo her attention away from so much of the peer pressure and artificial/superficial fast moving world – that will draw her attention ‘back’ to you, to show her that old-fashioned romance is something that’s still very special and beautiful, to enjoy
What’s your take on this?
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