{"id":3756,"date":"2019-02-12T10:25:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-12T18:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/stories\/for-better-or-worse-looking-for-love-in-the-internet-age\/"},"modified":"2025-01-21T14:15:18","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T22:15:18","slug":"online-dating-revolutionized-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/stories\/online-dating-revolutionized-love\/","title":{"rendered":"For better or worse: Looking for love in the internet age"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n    \n                                \n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--article-hero \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--article-hero\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n<div class=\"inner-wrapper\">\n          \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img\n                            data-src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2023\/04\/story-2949-768x432.jpg\"\n          data-srcset=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2023\/04\/story-2949-768x432.jpg 768w\"          data-sizes=\"(min-width:1200px) 75vw, (min-width:768px) 83vw, 100vw\"          class=\"lazyload\"\n        \n                  alt=\"For better or worse: Looking for love in the internet age\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n  \n\n<\/div>\n  \n      <div class=\"image-caption\">\n          \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  By creating a seemingly endless choice of romantic partners for its users, online dating apps have facilitated a &#8220;hook-up&#8221; culture that&#8217;s not conducive to settling down and is driving loneliness, anxiety and depression. 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USC Dornsife\u2019s   Julie Albright reveals how this digital technology has far-reaching effects on our health and well-being. <strong>[4 \u00be min read]<\/strong>\n\n\n<\/div>\n      <\/div>\n    \n           <strong class=\"author-field\"><span >By<\/span><a href=\"mailto:communication@dornsife.usc.edu\">Susan Bell<\/a><\/strong>\n    \n          <span class=\"post-date-field\">February 12, 2019<\/span>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--social-share \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--social-share\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n  <div class=\"content-wrapper\">\n    <span class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_32 addtoany_list\" style=\"line-height: 32px;\">\n      <span class=\"title\">\n        Share\n      <\/span>\n                        <a class=\"a2a_button_copy_link\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"\/#copy_link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Link\">\n            <span 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It was all about getting to know the inner person, and many people felt like they\u2019d met their soul mate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The original stigma may have gone as online dating went mainstream with the dawn of the mobile internet era, but Albright, a lecturer in <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/psyc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">psychology<\/a> at USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, says everything else has changed, too, as the app economy commodified people and relationships into something far more superficial.<\/p>\n<p>Online dating is now the second or third most common way \u2014 depending on age \u2014 for Americans to meet romantic partners. In Albright\u2019s upcoming book, <i>Left to Their Own Device<\/i>s: <i>How Digital Natives are Reshaping the American Dream<\/i> (Prometheus Books, 2019), she describes how it has altered the landscape of love and romance in the 21st century and reveals how the ways we now look for love are affecting our relationships, our health and our well-being \u2014 even the very fabric of society.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-embed\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/H5QOJCJE6H4\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<h2>The loneliness paradox<\/h2>\n<p>Online dating creates the idea that there are thousands of romantic possibilities available to us. However, that brings problems of its own, Albright warns, because when faced with a vast array of choices, paradoxically, we\u2019re unable to choose.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe keep thinking there are endless choices, that maybe someone better will come along,\u201d she said. \u201cBut at the end of the day, people who don\u2019t choose are going to end up lonely because they\u2019re not in a relationship. You have to choose and you have to commit to build something.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But by facilitating a \u201chookup\u201d culture, dating apps have created an environment that\u2019s not conducive to settling down.<\/p>\n<p>Dating has become a sport, Albright argues, rather than a means to build a long-term relationship.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou couldn\u2019t talk to 300 women in a night in a bar, but with a dating app, you can throw out a thousand hooks and get 300 bites.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Traditions like marriage or buying a home, she says, provide a guiding north star by which people can navigate their lives. Now, young digital natives, hyper-attached to digital technologies and no longer choosing commitment and marriage, are unhooking from traditional social structures and are cast adrift \u2014 a process Albright calls \u201ccoming untethered.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTaking the endgame out of courtship changes the dynamic of what dating is about. If you\u2019re just dating in a constant churn, there\u2019s no future and no hope on the horizon,\u201d she said. \u201cInstead, it becomes all about experience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The result, Albright argues, is that people find themselves lonely or anxious without knowing why.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou would think we\u2019re more connected than ever,\u201d Albright says, \u201cyet paradoxically, as we become increasingly enraptured and mesmerized by our devices, we\u2019re separating from one another.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>A warped sense of self<\/h2>\n<div class=\"news-image-portrait news-image-right\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/migration-uploads\/AlbrightB_225x350-2949.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"350\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Noting that we develop our sense of self through the reflected appraisal of others, Albright warns that people are drifting far from their true selves in constructing their dating profiles. The end result can undermine self-esteem because others are giving validation for a self that the person knows to be false.<\/p>\n<p>This \u201cvirtual mirror\u201d is also causing anxiety and depression, Albright notes, as people feel they can never live up to the images they see, even although they\u2019re comparing themselves to an \u201cother\u201d that doesn\u2019t really exist.<\/p>\n<h2>Doubly addictive<\/h2>\n<p>Even if we know online dating is making us depressed, it\u2019s not easy to stop, Albright argues. She compares using dating apps to playing one-armed bandits in Las Vegas. \u201cSometimes you win, sometimes you lose, and that\u2019s why you keep going back for more,\u201d she says, noting the power of random reinforcement as a behavioral driver.<\/p>\n<p>And that\u2019s not all. Dating apps and social media also fuel a narcissistic desire for attention, satisfying primitive psychological needs for attention, affirmation and validation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople can get very hooked on that,\u201d Albright says.<\/p>\n<p>Even if we can overcome our addiction to dating apps, abandoning them in favor of real-life encounters isn\u2019t so easy either. Meeting in real life now makes many people nervous, Albright says, as subtle conversation and flirting skills are lost through lack of practice, causing people to feel increasingly anxious and socially awkward.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, many younger people prefer texting to talking. This can translate into fewer partners as digital hyper-connectivity replaces physical relationships.<\/p>\n<h2>The good news<\/h2>\n<p>Albright does see some positive aspects to online dating.<\/p>\n<p>Early indicators show that relationships started online may be more successful. Online dating and social media can help people meet someone based on common interests and values that can predict a lasting relationship. They can also enable users to meet potential partners outside their normal social sphere, leading to more interracial relationships.<\/p>\n<p>Postponing marriage may mean couples are more mature and marriages later in life tend to be more stable \u2014 good news, too, for older women, who tend to be more successful dating online than younger women.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnline dating does open up new doors for people by giving them a place to begin again,\u201d Albright says. For older people coming out of a divorce or a long relationship, particularly, and unused to dating, it offers hope.<\/p>\n<p>And Albright\u2019s advice for finding true love?<\/p>\n<p>Avoid creating a false online persona, and take time to develop intimacy. But above all: Switch off your phone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSpend time together, get to know each other, look into each other\u2019s eyes and make building that relationship a sacred space. Just make sure it\u2019s without the intrusion of a device.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Online dating and social media have revolutionized how we look for love. 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