Love in 2012: What The Future Holds
Looking for love? Want better sex? Get ready for Relationships 2.0.
When it comes to relationships, what does the future hold? Will we meet via online matchmaker? Set the sheets on fire with cell phones-turned-sex toys? Or sip piña coladas served by cute robotic cabana boys? Regina Lynn, our Nostradamus of romance, peers into the next five years.
Prediction 1:
Video kills the coffee date. I don’t know what Starbucks is going to do, but in 2012, awkward first encounters will no longer take place over vente mochachinos. For those searching for a mate online, “First dates will be on live video,” says dating industry expert Mark Brooks of OnlinePersonalsWatch.com, “and videos don’t lie like pictures do.”
Though he also predicts that the single among us won’t necessarily be cozying up to our computers while auditioning pixelated Mr. Rights. “By then,” he says, “that video date will probably be on a mobile device.”
I know, I know, it sounds dreary and disconnected and oh-so-Sandra-Bullock-in-The-Net. But think of how much time you’ll save when you can screen potential mates quickly and efficiently—without even getting dressed below the waist if you don’t want to.
Even where we meet prospects is about to evolve. “Rather than canned profiles and emails, people will meet other people at events—concerts, movie screenings, etc.—in virtual worlds,” says Brian Shuster, CEO of Utherverse, a 3-D social network. “They will get to know each other in a more natural way, even have virtual world dates before real world dates.” Raising the question: Is it possible to have a virtual bad hair day?
Discussion
none of these things scare anybody? get out with the three dimensional world!
Seriously, who are you people that don't know what a Yenta is? You never saw Fiddler on the Roof?
Why does the writer presume that anyone outside of f*****g Tel Aviv knows what a f*****g Yenta is? Is it like a Yeti? Makes you want to root for that little Iranian dude..
What's a f...ing yenta? Can't you people speak English??? This is USA, not Israel!
Interesting predictions but most of them seem awfully miserable and completely fantastical. At least I can avoid the dating scene.
Predictions for 2012?
I think MORE sooner!!!!
1) Legislation (Identity Verification / Background Checks)
2) ISO 9001:2000 certification Quality Norms.
3) Market Segmentation.
4) New discoveries on Theories of Romantic Relationships Development will revolutionize the Online&Offline Dating Industry!
1) & 2)
The Online Dating Industry will urgently require Legislation, to avoid anonymity and fake profiles. *anonymity is different from privacy*
There are more than 910 "Online Dating & Social Networking Sites" at the United States and Canada. Legislation could kill most of them, specially those "free sites"!
I think Legislation and ISO 9001:2000 certification could lead to reach the ALARA (as low as reasonably achievable) concept for Online Dating Sites.
i.e. the probability of being scammed, raped, murdered, stalked, etc. using a specific Online Dating Site needs to be as low as comparing to the probability of being scammed, raped, murdered, stalked, etc. using real/traditional places like parks, schools, bars, libraries, discos, etc. for dating purposes.
3) Market Segmentation
THE FLIGHT TO ENTERTAINMENT.
* 13_to_25_years_old_persons (teenagers) not interested in serious dating.
They need fun == instant gratification.
"Fun Online Dating Success" is a high level of instant gratification; Big Databases full of profiles where any new member can find the persons he/she is looking for.
THE FLIGHT TO QUALITY.
* 26_and_more_years_old_persons interested in serious dating.
They need professionalism: i.e. quality CONTACTS == compatible real persons, avoid being hurt in their feelings by other persons, confidential treatment of information provided, privacy, code of ethics, background checks, like the contacts provided by OffLine Chains, but at affordable costs (If OffLine charges USD1,500 - USD3,000 then OnLine will charge an amount between USD300-USD800)
"Quality Online Dating Success" same as "Offline Chains Dating Success"; any new member will be matched with compatible real persons.
4) As for New discoveries on Theories of Romantic Relationships Development
- It seems that what is important in attracting people to one another may not be important in making couples happy!
AND
- temporal patterns of relationship variables may indeed play a significant role between mates / prospective mates; last stage: possible only high level on *personality* *similarity* between mates.
*personality* measured with the 16PF5 normative test in different languages.
*similarity* calculated using quantum math equations. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braket
BTW, if I were ever offered a 'yenta service' I wouldn't have it for free! The joker who wrote this piece needs to go to grammar school.
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/yenta
Maybe,he was referring to this
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/shadchen