Sujet : Re: Dead Internet Theory
De : ram (at) *nospam* zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram)
Groupes : comp.miscDate : 20. May 2024, 13:53:45
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Message-ID : <internet-20240520135155@ram.dialup.fu-berlin.de>
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Ben Collver <
bencollver@tilde.pink> wrote or quoted:
It's going to be a more and more salient question. It's already
real on dating sites. As I understand it the chances of you having
a positive interaction with an actual human being is fairly low on
any well-trafficked dating site.
How I view the internet depends on which part of it I cherry-pick
to look at.
Why would the author even expect a positive interaction with an
actual human being when going on a commercial dating site?
I don't know if commercial dating sites on the internet were
ever any different or better.
Back in the day, before the internet was a thing, there used
to be these marriage arrangement institutes. So I could write
about the "death of the real world" like this: "Folks, I've been
out there in the real world, and let me tell you, it's a pretty
bleak scene. If you hire one of those marriage arrangement
institutes to try and line you up with some nice ladies
- it's a total disaster!" Yeah, but in the real world there are
thousands of other things besides matchmaking services.
The internet is infrastructure. It provides the opportunity for
peer-to-peer structures just as much as centralized ones. People pick
and choose what they want from it. If people tend to use centralized
services in certain cases, it's likely not the internet's fault.
You can actually meet people over the internet, but it might happen
more often through other means than commercial dating services.
(I can't say much about that, since I don't have personal experience
with those commercial services nor have I read much about them.)