Love, Internet Style

I choose to do my final project essay on Love, Internet Style by David Brooks in Chapter 6. This essay argues for internet dating and how it brings back a process that was once shown in all dating relationships. I agree with what David Brooks is arguing, he says that for many generations Americans had a certain ritual that they followed when getting into relationships. The boy would ask the girl to a movie or a simple date where the boy would probably meet the father, then maybe after a few dates the boy would ask the girl to go steady. Now people do not take their time with relationships. Sex is a possibility on the first date which was unheard of over past decades. Brooks then argues how internet dating has changed that. He talks about how the two people that meet over the internet will exchange emails for a few weeks, then exchange phone calls for some time, then finally meet in person where the date will be simple like dinner or a movie. I agree with Brooks when he says that thanks to online dating people have started to get back into the same ritual as we have seen in years past. Online dating slows down the process that Americans have put into place now. Brooks argues that online relationships are at least as powerful as once that are met in person and that online relationships have a better chance of lasting than people that have sex on the first date.