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  In many cultures around the world, dating is a serious family matter, which is based on its culture and social values; where parents believe in arranged marriage or at least to make sure that their children get marry at certain age. In contrast in the United States, independency plays an important role in how singles value and date others. In America, whom to date is mainly a personal decision rather than parents’ influences. Parents expect their children to get married though, but is their son or daughter’s whom choice when and who they want to marry. Middle class tend to priorities other things that are more important to them such as, get a college degree, get a job, and then date their future spouse to settle down. Before the internet era, some American would meet prospective husband or wife in college, through friends, at work, etc. But now is very popular that singles are trying to meet people on websites and from cell phone applications. Dating people online can create other social issues. For example, some individuals might get in the illusion that there are so many singles looking for your mate, therefore some can get in to a bad habit of constantly meet new people, but do not want to get in a meaningful relationship and they may spend years dating looking for a perfect mate when in reality that does not exist. [1] Online dating might add up the number of single people who are looking for a mate or a relationship that can lead them to a courtship since having so many choices can be difficult to make up your mind. http://library.cqpress.com/cqresearcher/document.php?id=cqresrre2015032000 Meeting people from social sites might isolate us even more due to lack of communication face to face with friends and interact with new people on public places.



Internet Dating sites and cell phones applications, have make our lives more easies to meet singles. Symbolic interactionism theory is an example of online dating. It demonstrates how humans are good at following communication symbols like for example, the use of certain language and images. Although computer match-maker programs have being around for years, but in the last 20 years is when online dating became popular. Nowadays, Young people and even some from the old school have an online dating profile. The easy way to get to meet new singles is very simple through this new technology and can be dangerous as well because some people might get addictive to it and might not get into any serious relationship at all. http://library.cqpress.com/cqresearcher/document.php?id=cqresrre2015032000

Conflict theory, plays a big role in social media and technology. Online dating sites like Match.com and eHarmony are making billions of dollars from regular users; in March, 2015 Match.com had 35 million visitors. These company’s concerns are basely to update their sites to attract more customers and increase revenues. Even the free phones dating applications are making money from small advertising that pop up to users.

Some females complain being victims of cyberbully on some of these free dating sites. While others experience sexual harassment. http://library.cqpress.com/cqresearcher/document.php?id=cqresrre2015032000

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