I get your point, david_north2013.

I think there are a lot of reasons folks spend time on-line searching...tired of blind dates, tired of the folks friends fix us up with... and wonder if they ever knew us at all, tired of the bar scene, and on and on.

I do think it's important not to become obsessed with finding someone, on-line or otherwise, and to continue living our lives, and developing interests that will provide opportunities to meet folks, and not to be in a hurry to make it happen. As the saying goes, it happens when we least expect it, and often with someone we least expected.

For me, it's simply this, adults are free to produce, promote, and listen to this crap if they wish, because as adults hopefully their self image and ideas of their roles in relationships have already been formed, but parents have the ultimate say in what their kids with young, impressionable minds, who have not yet determined their roles, their self images not yet formed, listen to and take in. My parents limited what I listened to, that was part of their job, responsible parents have been doing that since the beginning of time. When I became an adult and out of their home, I was free to listen to and dance however I wished, as are all of you adults because by then hopefully we have learned that this is nothing more than a money making scheme and the producers of this crap couldn't care less what kind of self image your kid or mine has, they're just pushing a product.

Kids will eat cookies and drink soda all day too if their parents don't step in and control what they're taking in.