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Finding Love In A World Of Hookup Culture

Apps = love?

Percy Johnson Smith
Nov 07, 2016
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Finding Love In A World Of Hookup Culture
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Why can I manage to talk to 15 different guys at one time, but yet still haven't managed to get myself a boyfriend?

The million-dollar question.

In the world we live in today, it's all focused around "Hook-up Culture". Why can't we take it back to the days where courting was still a thing? When people showed up on your doorstep to ask you out rather than shooting you some irrational message on Tinder?

Don't get me wrong -- it's not like I haven't had my fair share of hookups myself. But in the end, I still want a boyfriend. I'm sick of the ever-going chase of having to use so many different social media apps to find a nice boy, take him on a date, only to find out all he wants is sex. It's frustrating to no end.

Who do we have to blame for this besides, of course, ourselves? There's social media apps on our phones, our laptops, our tablets, and other electronic devices that are to blame, too. So thank you Tinder, Grindr, Her, Badoo, Scruff, and so on and so forth, for setting the tone in world that hook-up culture is the newest trend.

I've seen this firsthand countless times. Recently, I have realized that being a college student, the easiest way to meet people that would be possible candidates for a suitable partner was to download those apps. I too have fallen into hookup culture and see myself wanting to get out of it more and more each day.

I want to be able to take a nice guy on a date and at the end of the night when I kiss them goodbye, they not expect me to slip them a room key to a hotel room or in this case, the passport to my dormitory. I want to be able to kiss them goodnight and them ask, "When's the next time I'll see you?" I want them to ask to go out on another date. In the end, I want to be able to say I could see myself settling down with.

Is it too much to ask to find someone else in this world who might just want to find love and not just a hook-up? Having to put myself out there on so many platforms is a pain in the ass.

I'm really just a southern gentleman looking for love in a world of hookup culture.

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