The Internet has revolutionized the way we do almost everything from shopping to working to dating. And with all of these positive advances in our technological lives, there is no way to avoid the inevitable negatives. For those who do not know, Ashley Madison is a website where married people looking for an affair can go. Their slogan? Have an affair. With popular applications among college students and young adults such as Tinder and other hot-or-not types of apps, it is often argued that we are becoming more of a hook-ups only type of society, tearing down the walls of traditional relationships before the platforms of online browsing were even thought of.
As a hopeless romantic, these apps always have disgusted me. How petty it is that my generation has succumbed to the left or right swipe of a profile pic first impression? Come on, even Kim Kardashian has admitted to using the Perfect app to retouch her selfies.
Upon hearing about this Ashley Madison hack and scandal, I was shocked. Clearly, my generation is not the only petty age group. This is where I began to wonder. Is our society a worse, less-loyal one because of the Internet and platforms like these? Or have we always been this way, and is the Internet just serving as an easy platform for us to practice this reality?
Tinder, an app that I always tell my friends makes me want to throw up, is widely regarded as an app that is used by people simply looking for a hook-up. This is a hasty generalization, though, as this is not the case with all Tinder users.
A few of my friends have used Tinder to meet someone new and ended up going on a couple dates with those people β which is great. The harsh reality of it all is that the one-night stand has been around a lot longer than the World Wide Web.
