Is Technology making Dating more Difficult?

I remember watching the Jetson's growing up thinking about how much easier life would be if I only had a robot to help clean my room. As time went on I realized how much quicker it was to find out the answer to a question with a computer instead of having to go to the library and look through the card catalog and multiple books to find out the same infomation. But now I wonder is technology making life, specifically dating any easier?

A friend of mine recently gave me an update on the guy whom had not only asked for her number but almost slipt and fell while being our waiter since he was staring so hard at her. He asked for her number and they talked until he had to to back to work. They had been texting and emailing since then. So far so good right?..yes I though the same util he asked her if she had time in her schedule that week to..oh no, not go go on a date..well not an in person one at least..to skype with him. He works four blocks from her house and he asks to skype!

Then another friend called me all excited that she felt real potential with the online guy she had been talking to. I asked her why? She said after months of emails, im's, and facebook messages they were finally going to meet. This was a big step the in person meeting. Years ago that was the FIRST step.

This past week I was setting up a first date. It took over an hour via text message. A phone call would have taken five, maybe ten minutes.

This got me thinking about something that has grown into a modern day dating ritual. Has our practice of the concept of updating your facebook status to dating as a public way of showing you are serious about the person the modern version of getting pinned in the 1950's? We no longer have to have men call our house on the one landline or ask for our parents hand in marriage. We no longer have chaperones as they did years ago. Yet dating takes just as long if not longer to meet someone.

We are able to meet people and within 10 minutes of talking to them have researched then on facebook, linkedin, and twitter. So why does it take so long for us to feel that we truly know a person? What is the point of sending a text message saying hi and when the other person writes back hi the conversation ends?

I'm sure that technology has its positives when it comes to dating such as all those couples that may have never met and those long distance relationships that are stronger now that they can physically see the person before they go to bed, but I wonder how we can uncomplicate the technology of dating in the modern age.....

Perhaps these days everything is at our fingertips, except another's heart....