Intro
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We all want to love and be loved. We meet potential lovers at parties, clubs, even the grocery store. But in the age of technology, more and more people are looking for love online.
Hundreds of online dating services and sites like MySpace encourage young people to introduce themselves to invisible friends in cyberspace. And many of them are hooking up. They email a few times to decide whether they might be a good match. They meet up, and sometimes they fall in love.
Listen to Mason and Emily talk about their own online dating experiences.
Dialog
1. Listen and Read - Listen to the audio and read the dialog at the same time.
2. Study - Read the dialog again to see how the vocab words are used.
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Mason: Yeah, it’s a funny thing, like, I mean, I’ve done online dating. I’m outing myself now. Uh…
Emily: I too have done online dating.
Mason: Have you really?
Emily: I must admit.
Mason: I’m shaking your hand right now. Um, so I’ve been, I’ve been on dates with, what, like, five girls or so that I’ve met online.
Emily: And, how did they go?
Mason: Uh, one, one girl I actually ended up dating for about two months and it went really well for the time that it worked. Uh, but that was, that was the once. You know, everyone else has just kinda been hard to get over that gap of, like, having already talked about certain things, and, like, asked a certain degree of personal questions but not having, like, actually felt how the chemistry works between two people.
Emily: It’s like a perpetual blind date.
Mason: Exactly, it’s like… and then when you actually get together, it’s really, really hard to bridge the gap of the online thing.
Emily: Right. That’s what I was gonna say.
Mason: Like touching, like actulaly just touching that person is weird.
Emily: There’s always this air of, like, “We met online.”
Mason: Yeah. I think it’s changing though. It’s changing a lot. Like, because I had a lot of shame when I first started telling people about it after I did it.
Emily: Rightfully so. Just kidding.
Mason: Are they gonna have, like, a picture of me in my slouch gear up?
Emily: Maybe.
Mason: Um…
Emily: Maybe we should vidoetape this.
Mason: We should bring cameras. But, but no… and then, like, every… when I started saying it, a lot of people who I didnt’ expect were, like, “Oh, yeah, I’ve given that a try.”
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Discussion
Mason was embarrassed about the fact that he has done online dating. But since he started doing it, he has realized that a lot of people do it. It is actually very common, but some people still feel ashamed about it.
Emily put an ad online when she moved to Chicago. She didn’t end up dating anyone, but she made some friends.
Mason and Emily agree that it can be kind of awkward to meet someone in person after you have interacted online.
Do you look for love online? Do you think it’s possible to fall in love online?
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