Mobile Dating putting people ‘out of touch’?Category: Dating
Article added by: Fran Rimrod
Dating and dumping via email, text flirting and mobile dating may have liberated Generation Tech, but rather than bringing users closer together, the increasing array of telecommunications available today may have made it harder to "get in touch".
The mobile dating industries continue to develop at astonishing speeds. Mobile text tennis has successfully challenged the traditional methods of saying "I luv u" or "I'm horny", depending on your mood.
For many in the dating game, mobile dating is the way to go. From saucy to sacred and naughty to nice, "sexperimenting" is the power behind the text boom and escalating figures prove it, with many users enjoying a bit of "tech-courage" when it comes to letting your fingers do the talking.
The volume of text messages sent illustrates the allure of the medium. But it's not quite clear how successful it is: the number of single people in Australia is the highest it has ever been (4.7 million, Australia Bureau of Statistics, 2002), which could suggest that our relationship skills are floundering.
And pace yourself because there's plenty more SMS fun to be had. It was only a matter of time before mobile dating will overtake e-dating. Mobile dating, which is huge in the United States, will soon be launched here by Match.com Mobile.
As for the lure of being able to hide behind the technology, a godsend for the shy and awkward, videophones have now got in on the act to add another form of cyber-vision. There are more than 1.3 million video users in Britain, where videophones act as dating tools and mobile dating events are built around them. New developments in jam texting and "toothing" (otherwise known as bluejacking or snarfing, where people use their mobile's bluetooth abilities to contact others within a 10-metre vicinity) offer further possibilities to those looking for quick, casual encounters with strangers.
Askmen.com is currently reviewing a new mobile dating gadget designed to add an extra sexy element to flirty or downright dirty text messaging, (or should that be "sext messaging"?). Called VibraExciter, it's "direct from the drawer marked 21st-Century Fun" and can be triggered by the signal from a mobile phone. The compact and powerful vibrating bullet of the VibraExciter is controlled by a small box that clips discreetly to your clothing.
Quite simply, when you receive a text message to your mobile phone the control unit activates the vibrating bullet for approximately 20 seconds. When you receive a telephone call, the bullet will vibrate for the duration of the call and then for about 25 seconds after it has finished.
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