I must admit that my hasty judgement on dating sites was, well, hasty. I recently joined a dating/social networking site that has proved to be most interesting. A wide variety of intelligent, interesting people populate the site, making connections very easy and enjoyable. I do so enjoy speaking to people from other parts of the world. Although it is kind of funny that the vast majority of them work with computers! Thank heaven for the internet!
The site I joined uses all sorts of sophisticated matching programs that are fun even if they aren’t accurate. Time will tell I suppose. My Mum is very worried about such sites and perhaps she’s right to be cautious. I know I would not meet anyone in person until I had conversed with them for a long time, and felt I knew a lot about them. And let me tell you, the meeting place would be well-lit and full of people.
But why spoil the fun with all that? The media has exaggerated the number of sickos out there to mind-numbing extremes. There may be more sickos out there due to the mere fact that the population is expanding every day, but this doesn’t mean that the rate of psychopathology has changed in our society.
And who knows, maybe I’m the sicko?
