#rationalizationoflove

[femmebotshavefeelings2-blog]

Your imagination can take on the values of the capitalist economy if you aren't careful. 

[almostnuttydinosaur-blog]

While Snow White, Cinderella, and Sleeping Beauty may have found love with their charm, good looks, and damsel is distress situation, not all of us are lucky enough to find that perfect match on the first try. Sometimes it’s hard to find a good partner, especially when those pesky emotions get involved and you “fall in love” too fast. Like Anna with Hans in Frozen (if you haven’t seen it, you should). Today, the web offers many different sites to help people find their "partner in crime." These sites are designed to help people find "love" by comparing their attributes and interests and finding other people on the same site who might be a good match. Using sites like these broaden potential dating horizons and allow the time to search for a partner without emotional involvement. 

[pacuinternetnsociety]

Rationalization of love is where controversial decision making, like going onto an online dating site, is justified by rational behavior, like falling in love with the person you met online.  Before the internet, people met each other face to face and talked to each other, gathering information about the other one as time went on.  Nowadays, people can go on to the internet and create profiles on dating sites where they can see all the same information that would have normally taken months to get before the internet, in about five minutes of looking on their profile.  These sites match people, using algorithms, to see which people are the most compatible for them.  Those people can then make a snap decision on whether they actually want to try and start a relationship with the other person if they are matched up with.  This then leads to the question of can this emotion of “love” be sustained over a period of time at the same capacity?

  This artifact can relate to the rationalization of love because love does not happen instantly.  In fact, it calls into question if the same we will have the same connection to people because the internet only matches us by our interests, not our feelings.  It all relates back to intimacy and whether or not the internet will increase, decrease or remain unchanged in the realm of intimacy.

  This is significant to the realm of new media and society because more and more people are signing up for sites in hopes of finding the desired connection they have been having trouble finding on their own.  They believe a computer can find a person who they will fall in love with and they will still have the same connection and feelings for them, as if they had found them on their own.  Other concepts we could interface with this one are Web 2.0, because it is allowing people to create content about themselves to hopefully benefit their life.  We could also interface it with information and interactivity.  We are putting information out there about ourselves to help us find a connection with someone else.  As for interactivity, we are engaging in activity with our technological devices to put our information out there.