Sunday, June 08, 2008
matchmaking site
We are of a very interesting generation that people are going to look back on and see where some things began and others came to an end. Today we can look back on other generations and see what they had to go through and think of of what it must have been like to grow up in such a climate or during such events. In the last hundred years we have seen many wars and many changes. We have seen the harnessing of flight and the energy of the atom. All of these things fell before the emergence of my generation and exist as these amazing stories that happened long ago before our parents were born. What has happened in our generation that we take as something normal and plain is would have seemed insane to our ancestors living those wild stories of the turn of the century.
The advances in technology, especially the internet, have changed the way we live our lives and really exists as the biggest development in our lives that will be our generation's milestone. We have all grown up from being very young to where we are today as the internet has developed along side of us. The world of the web has really gone from being this silly little utility we used as kids to practice numbers in school to encompassing all of our lives. The internet has quickly been overtaking all aspects of life from entertainment all the way through dating. The phenomenon of the matchmaking site is actually something that deserves a little bit of attention. This is a big part of what we have come to feel as part of our zeitgeist. Now in our time we have seen the emergence of this whole other world where business happens and where singles can look at personals and meet the people of their dreams in a matter of days for relatively cheap. Our lives have grown along side this technology and will continue to do so in an ever deepening relationship that depends upon our willingness to submit to impressionability. Wherever it goes from here we can all agree that we will look back and tell our grandchildren that we were there when the world went digital.
Mike @ 7:18 PM