Дата публикации: 28.11.2021

College dating and social anxiety: using the Internet as a means of connecting to others

For better or for worse, Tinder is a dating app popular among college students. Testimonials reported by USA Today seem to suggest that dates resulting from the matches on the app, much like those initiated through physical person-to-person interactions, can go either way. Part of the Tinder charm is its simplicity — swipe right if you’re interested, and left if you’re not — but that simplicity can be a double-edged sword , resulting in superficial matches.

This evolution has continued with the rise of online dating sites and college graduates and those with some college experience are more.

Dating trends that had already begun may be accelerated by the coronavirus pandemic, says a UAH sociologist. Jennifer Sims, who examines dating as a social activity in a section of her Sociology of Sexuality classes. Given the necessity for social distancing created by the coronavirus, it is likely that going forward this method of meeting and getting to know someone will increase even more.

A post-pandemic shift to increased online dating likely will be disproportionately driven by people who previously met others in a traditional setting like church, or in contemporary in-person contexts like the college hook-up scene, Dr. Sims says. But for many, online dating is already preferred. Jennifer Sims says a post-pandemic shift to increased online dating likely will be disproportionately driven by people who previously met others in a traditional setting.

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Overall, the only type of dating that has been curtailed by the pandemic is the college hook-up scene, she says. Other types of dating, though, have likely continued and the changes in dating trends that were already occurring before the pandemic probably is still evolving. But not everyone can afford — or wants — to go out, so dating conventions like “Netflix and Chill” were already gaining popularity, Dr. Couples who live far apart were already making use of video platforms like FaceTime and Zoom to stay connected.

Jennifer Sims