High-tech dating leaves out the fun

The record album, the horse-drawn carriage, the abacus, the establishment of dating - that's just a short list of some things that have become obsolete. And here is a list what replaced them: the compact disc, the automobile, the calculator, high-tech dating.I'm naming this phenomenon. High-tech dating is the use of technology to forego as much face-to-face getting to know each other as possible.Let's say technological dating encompasses Facebook, MySpace, AOL Instant Messenger, e-mails and text messages. If so, the majority of the couples I know became acquainted through high-tech dating. I believed Bob Dylan when he said 'the times they are a-changin'. And for the most part, societal progression is a good thing. .

Dating Site Is Good Medicine for Those Ailing

Online dating sites such as Match.com and eHarmony draw millions with a promise of replacing chance meetings with a targeted computer search for a soul mate. Now there's Prescription4Love.com, a dating Web site "for people with special conditions."

Launched last year, it was created by Ricky Durham in memory of his brother, James Keith Durham, who died in 2004 after a 15-year battle with Crohn's disease.

"He couldn't meet people," remembers Durham. "He had a colostomy bag, so he didn't feel comfortable meeting people." Things might have been different, Durham believes, if his brother had been able to find somebody who shared -- and understood -- his illness. The Web site allows users to do just that by searching according to different conditions, such as AIDS, infertility and obesity.

Online Dating Site Brings to People Over 50 the Best Days of Their Lives

Prime Singles, an online singles community dedicated to helping singles find their dates in a completely secure online environment, announces the launch of their new website, Meet-Prime-Singles.com, that facilitates online dating among people who are not in the prime of their youth -- i.e., people over 50 years of age as well as senior citizens. .

Finding love online

Men and women have been writing their way to romance for centuries but only now is it being used as a tool to improve health and wellbeing.

More and more singles are joining online dating sites as part of a new trend in physical and emotional therapy.

Psychologist and hypnotherapist Jo Robinson, who has just conducted UWA's first Extension course on online dating, said she saw people every day in her Perth practice whose search for a compatible partner was causing them great anxiety and suffering.

She said the internet provided emotional resilience for people who were tormented by a strong sense of rejection. Ms Robinson, who met her own partner online, said the internet was a crucial venue for an increasing number of people to make connections.

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