titled Nancy Jo Sales’s article on dating apps “Tinder and the Dawn of the ‘Dating Apocalypse’” and I thought it again this month when Hinge, another dating app, advertised its relaunch with a site called “thedatingapocalypse.com,” borrowing the phrase from Sales’s article, which apparently caused the company shame and was partially responsible for their effort to become, as they put it, a “relationship app.”Despite the difficulties of modern dating, if there is an imminent apocalypse, I believe it will be spurred by something else.I don’t believe technology has distracted us from real human connection.Williams claims this old system relied on “charm,” but it sounds more like “sexism” to me.Williams quotes our own Hanna Rosin on how shifting gender roles have thrown a wrench in that old routine: “It’s hard to read a woman exactly right these days,” [Rosin] says.He is likely unable to grasp the nuances of the new courtship-the ease and speed we have brought to it as a way of keeping safe our time and money. (I’m pretty sure my mom who is undoubtedly reading this just had a baby stroke.) In reality, I met them both at normal, nice after work bars-one in West Village, in New York City, the other in Midtown.

But other writers (Williams included) lament the loss of traditional dating, blaming modern communications technologies (such as Facebook, Gchats, and texting) for ruining romance.Courtship, “may be an informal and private matter between two people or may be a public affair, or a formal arrangement with family approval” and one could argue, it begins with our ancestors reaching blindly for each other on the dirt floor of a cave. I’ve been told that the “check dance” is very important.) These dates both shifted inevitably to the topic of online dating and how inherently weird it is.So yes, it has changed a fair bit since then and will continue to do so. It is weird in the way that people thought the first cell phone was weird and unnecessary. Some of these people find love, and others have a nice time and good conversation and call it a night, and a very, very small minority end up in a ditch. " data-twitter=" data-twitter-url=" RMx" class="share-buttons"article which argues that dating as we’ve known it has, well, passed on.And does that count as “death” to courtship as we knew it? In fact, each month, 25 million people seek out dates through online dating services.this weekend, reporter Alex Williams mourns “The End of Courtship.” Texting is to blame for dating’s demise.“Instead of dinner-and-a-movie, which seems as obsolete as a rotary phone,” young people today “rendezvous over phone texts, Facebook posts, instant messages and other ‘non-dates’ that are leaving a generation confused about how to land a boyfriend or girlfriend,” Williams reports. Williams’ report treads familiar ground: Back in an arbitrary time period that predates our own, interactions between men and women were simple, the argument goes; advances in technology have led us astray of this most fundamental human relationship.