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I was getting very personal with my hairdresser the other day (as women do with their hairdressers), when she mentioned a friend of hers bawling her eyes out over a guy. My hairdresser said, “She’d only been out with the guy a few times, and I think she really expected it to go somewhere. But they met online so that’s an unrealistic thing to expect from online dating.” Why is that? I wondered. Why is it any less realistic to expect things to go somewhere with an online date than it is to expect that with someone you meet in real life? I met my guy in real life so, I’d never really thought about this before. It almost sounded like my hairdresser was giving the guy an excuse for letting her friend down. But then she explained to me her thinking. She wasn’t giving him an excuse—she was just pointing out the inherent flaky nature of online dating. Here is why online dating encourages flakiness.
You can blame the Wi-Fi
If you lose interest in someone and decide to ghost, but then change your mind a week later, you can always just blame your Internet—say it had been on and off that week. You can’t just stop talking to someone who is in front of your face in real life and blame the Internet.
