Hooking Up or Just Hanging Out....A Look at a New Reality Series

As typical with anything in this world, it takes years for media to sit up and take notice and now it unfolds. I refer to new series on ABC entitled "Hooking Up" that follows eleven women through adventure of "online dating". Albeit, another reality show, I found this depiction to be right on target to ordinary dater's experiences. The premiere episode, followed a hair salon owner to meet her "British Fabio" who turned out to be older than he stated, looked nothing like his posted photo and admitted to her it was 15 yrs old. I thought that was one of golden rules of "online Dating", post a current photo of yourself, be honest! Obviously he did not read online manual. Things of this nature happen day after day all over world and give world of Online Dating a bad rep, but bottom line is, this program will expose men and women who indulge in these habits and create a better understanding of what opposite sex is looking for, what they expect and aprropriate etiquette on age old first "Blind Date".

As show progresses, we also meet "Claire", an innocent but savvy career woman, she knows what she wants and steps up to plate to reach her goals. She schedules elusive first date, has a good time and agrees to a second date and finds during second date that her feelings for this guy are more a platonic nature and lets guy down via an email. Seems appropriate one would think, considering method in which they met, but c'mon, how impersonal is that? Kind of reminds me of Carrie Bradshaw on Sex and City when she got dumped on a post-it note. It may be internet, but lets try to be a little more considerate and not cowardly. If you have courage to meet this person in first place, have courage to end it in person or by a phone call.