Which is Worse: Digital ‘Dating’ or Real-Life Dating?
Online dating is becoming more popular, but may come with more risks
Last week a friend and I were watching a program called “Date with the Devil.” It was a true-crime show which, in this case, profiled a couple who had met on some dating app and she was later murdered by him. My friend said, “I wonder if that’s (online dating) better or worse than ‘bar dating’?”
Let it be noted that this friend is one of the very few people I know who isn’t “online.” He has a flip phone, can’t use a computer — it’s never been relevant to his work or his life in general — and has no desire to change that. He is technologically still in the 70s, but that’s not totally a bad thing, in my view.
I, on the other hand, have been using computers for more than 30 years. It started with learning Basic computer programming in 11th grade (early 80s) on an Apple IIe (remember those cute little boxes???); and also used them in my former life as a newspaper reporter. It was how we wrote and created our news products. Now I’m writing online, so the tradition continues.
So that combined with the fact that I’ve been a Singleton (having been divorced after two brief marriages) most of my adult life, I got lured into the idea of online dating shortly after my last divorce (early 2000s). So I said to my friend…
