When it comes to courtship, online dating is a modern innovation. At first, many people found this kind of dating to be a little weird. Usually, when you told people you had met your boyfriend online, they made an assumption that you were too nerdy or unattractive to meet someone in real life. That’s why you had to find someone in cyberspace. Whether or not this was a fair judgment, it was a judgment that many people made. Finding someone to date using the Internet was simply not chic.
Ten years later, all that has changed. There are hundreds of dating services on the web, and meeting your mate online has become acceptable. There’s no stigma attached to it. In fact, dating someone you met online can be a fun way to get to know yourself better. You’ll take personality tests. You’ll describe your background, your childhood, your family, your likes and dislikes, your political opinions, and your religious beliefs. When you go through these questions, you could look at it as a hassle, but it’s better to view the experience as a sort of self-examination, a time to pause for some introspection to find out who you really are.
You may realize that even though everyone in your family is a card-carrying member of the National Rifle Association, you just happen to believe that gun control is a good idea. You might find out that even though you used to hate country music, lately it’s grown on you, so much so that you would like to enroll in square dancing classes. You might discover that though you’ve been ordering strawberry ice cream for years, you’d actually prefer a different flavor like pistachio, pralines, or the one with bits of bubble gum in it. These are valuable things to find out and will make you better prepared to date the person you meet online.















