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Match Login in Dating

• In today’s society of instant gratification, being able to get almost whatever you want with a click of the button is the expectation. Whether it is buying clothes, ordering food, video chatting across the world, or even getting a date, having access to applications that provide quick services is the standard. When it comes to dating, with an embarrassment of websites and apps at people’s disposal, finding a date is literally at your fingertips. Matching with someone on a Wednesday and setting up a date for Friday is the new normal. However, with a worldwide lockdown and people self-quarantining because of the Coronavirus, this has raised a few questions about what the future of dating will look like for the foreseeable future. Should people passively converse until the lockdown is over and then coordinate a date? Should people be fully engaged and have virtual dates to hold them over until the lockdown is lifted? Are people willing to risk going against the lockdown and meeting up anyways? What is the best approach?

• One thing that must be asked from this is, will the pandemic change dating for the long run? Will people value conversation and building up a rapport with their matches instead of rushing into a meeting in person? Before the internet boom, courtship was expected. Long phone calls to get to know your potential date would be a nightly thing and before that, people would send letters in the mail to show their interest. Through this long process, people were able to find out more about their love interest prior to going on a date, instead of waiting for the first date to find out everything. With the state of dating being reserved to mostly online dating, video chatting, and finding creative ways to keep in touch while social distancing, the new normal for daters should be reverting back to the courting of the old days. Instead of conversing to meet, chatting to know who the person is and accessing compatibility between the two should be the goal, and meet if you two hit it off. As this approach is the complete opposite of most dating applications, finding an app that values compatibility and conversation is a must during this time and what we expect to be the new normal post-pandemic.