Dating: The Family By Philip N. Cohen

Dating is a common behavior that is seen all over the world. Most people have experience dating. Dating is a common theme seen today and back in the past. Most people start dating around the age of 13 years old. I believe North American dating relationships are heading towards more of online interaction such as online dating or meeting someone online. In the book The Family by Philip N. Cohen he states “the combination of romantic ideals and utilitarian purposes can make for some elaborate and extended searches for the perfect partner” (Cohen 237). With online dating it is much easier to find a person that you are looking for and it gives way to an easier access to dating. What I mean by dating relationships heading more towards online is that
Hooking up is a common theme today among adults. From the book The Family the author states that hooking up is a casual sexual or romantic encounter What I believe to be the definition of hooking up is when two people male or female having sexual interactions for one time with no strings attached. I also define hooking up as when two people have sexual interactions without being in a committed relationship. When speaking among my peers about their definition of hooking up I noticed that their definition were similar to mine. Most of peers called hooking up when two adults get together for sexual interactions or they called it a one night stand. One of mine peer did not have the same definition hooking up as me and my other peers that I talked to. This person defined hooking up as a means of dating when two people meet for the first time and hit it off from the moment they met and start dating the following day. This peer of mine also said that hooking up was when someone sets up two individuals to meet and get to know each other without the sexual interaction that myself and my other peers first defined it. Hooking up is seen more culturally acceptable to society and is more common than being in a committed relationship. Hooking up defined by me and my peers all seem to reach the same
When signing up with Tinder one of the requirements for using the app is linking your Facebook and there is no other way to use the app without a Facebook account. Once you link your Facebook account there is no other requirements to use the app. The layout of Tinder is simple, when using Tinder, users are given an image of another user and can swipe left or right for their options. When swiping right users are showing interest in that other user, but when swiping left the user does not show interest in that person. When swiping right of the user you interested in the other user would get a notification saying that there is a person that is interested in you and if that person likes you back you can then send each other messages to get to know each other more. Navigation of the app is fairly easy as it requires the action of just swiping your screen left or right to see users that are near you. Tinder offers a simple and easy way of meeting people near you that might interest you and maybe lead to something bigger. Tinder offers a lot of pros and a lot of cons when using the app. The pros of Tinder is the simple use of swiping left or right, meeting people near you, uses Facebook to tell if people are real or not, and quick interaction. The cons of Tinder is you don’t know if a user has the same interest as you unless you like their image, images