Imagine the chasm you'd fall into and the loneliness you'd feel. Just imagine the hurt you would feel because he just hasn't been searching hard enough to find you. This hoe definitely needs her stick from the Bush, but the stick needs a middle man to find it, cut it and bring it to the hoe. So a bit of coordination is required.
In the absence of or in addition to friends and family connections, today's world offers dating websites - such a wonderful invention. With this wonderful creation it should have been easy to find a stick in the bush to insert into my hoe, however the sample has grown from a backyard bush to an amazon-like forest. With so many trees to choose from, how does one determine which stick is best? And so the awesome problem of an abundance of choices arise or as Economists would call it, 'the paradox of choice' arises.
This abundance of choices applies to all the users of these websites though which means meaningful relationships are harder to form. This leads us to meeting a lot of people, being confused by too many choices and forming less stable relationships. In the end, we end up waking up to pitter patter sounds of rain on the roof, rolling over and feeling nothing but space. All that pitters doesn't patter :) - the rain version of 'All that glitters isn't gold'.When online dating just burst on the scene, many persons felt that it would definitely solve their problems, but instead, it only made it worse for some.
In this bustling online world, does every hoe still have their stick in the bush? Maybe yes, but maybe we no longer take the time needed to find out if the stick is the right fit. Maybe seeing the stick online and meeting the stick in person is a challenge. Maybe the stick was even misrepresented online - 'catfished'. Oh boy, this online world can make life so much more difficult than it has to be!
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