Friday, December 07, 2012

The web is where the heart is?!

Link-ups and break-ups… it’s all happening on the Internet.

With easy access to the Internet, it is said that people are coming closer. I’d say that with easy access to the Internet, people are becoming intimate! Activities like sports, music, dancing and painting have been substituted by chatting; and incase you assumed that this cyber addiction was limited to only youngsters, let me tell you that it is not. The reality is that it is not just kids or young adults who are obsessed with on-line friendships and cyber dating. Grown-up adults – including married men and women – are spending a great deal of time on sites like Orkut and Facebook, not just to keep in touch with long lost friends but to forge new relationships… and much more!

Shyla’s parents couldn’t have been more shocked on learning that their daughter wanted to marry a boy whom she hadn’t been dating, but had been chatting with. “How could I ever trust anyone who Shyla had met on-line where the scope of being pretentious is thoroughly explored for the sake of fun? How can one claim to have faith in a person you’ve only chatted with and not met?” squealed Shyla’s mom, while Shyla had a different argument. “I accidentally met Bhagat on-line. He was quite interesting and so we were constantly in touch. After a year of chatting we decided to meet. We continued to stay in touch on-line. Although we had met only thrice in three years, we grew fond of each other. Now, after three years of knowing each other, we have decided to get married”, said Shyla. Due to their unrelenting stand, the families had to meet and eventually, happily agreed with their decision. “On-line dating is a risky affair because there are little chances of one being serious about it. But on the other hand, it gives a huge scope of getting in touch with and meeting different people, especially for those who are looking out for a partner. Frankly speaking, I never trusted on-line relationships but there are always exceptions, like in our case!” exclaimed Bhagat.


Source : IIPM Editorial, 2012.
An Initiative of IIPMMalay Chaudhuri

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