Match Making Sites: Are You Banking on Them for Your Future Happiness?

There was a time when humans used to go out with whatever weapon they could find and hunt for their food; now we have personal shoppers and Internet sites that home deliver. Likewise, hunting for a mate has also undergone drastic changes with the times; we have graduated from caveman antics of kidnapping whoever strikes our fancy; and have started to rely on more sophisticated means for finding our true mates; namely matrimonial/match-making and online dating sites.

In today’s fast paced world, where one doesn’t have the time to attend a friend’s wedding, it is not all that surprising that we are relying on a lifeless electronic medium to find us our own marital bliss. We have more faith on the personal profile pasted on an HTML page; which has been typed by someone sitting thousand miles away; than on the likelihood of falling in love at first sight.

Match making sites have indeed made the “finding your soul-mate” process much less painstaking by making pictures and profiles available for all those who are looking for their perfect partner. Because of these sites, marriage, after all, might be just a click away. They clearly save you the time and energy needed to get to know a person over several dates and you can easily find out a lot more information by just browsing through a few pages. If you fancy someone’s picture; or love someone’s profile; all you need to do is set up a date and you might be shortly riding the marriage wagon.

Matchmaking or online dating sites have their own benefits but as the old adage goes; when something looks too good to be true, it probably is. There are many marriages which have fallen apart; merely because of the fact that the information provided on such sites have been taken at face value. When a person makes a profile, the last thing someone would put there; is an addiction to cocaine or a penchant for shoplifting.Getting attracted to someone virtually is a very normal and scientifically proven fact, and even more dangerous because the other person has complete control over the information he or she is providing you. So, falling into a trap is not an unlikely chance. 

Lot of couples rely on these sites to work their magic wands and find that perfect happy marriage for you. But just like those advertisements that matrimonial sites display; with happy couplessmiling blissfully at each other, the idea of you finding your true soul-mate without making any effort, is a little surreal. If we realize after the wedding that the online compatibility we had gleaned earlier is more fiction than fact; it is too late to do anything about it. It is not the fault of the match-making sites; maybe we don’t have the time to fall in love, but we should at least have the time to find out more about the person whom we are going to spend the rest of our lives with.

There are pros and cons to every kind of relationship, whether it is based on love at first sight or dating someone through one of the online match making sites; there are no assured guarantees in any of them. But that is no excuse for blindly putting our own happiness at the hands of a machine, no matter how smart and sophisticated it might be.