{"id":26667,"date":"2020-08-08T19:17:12","date_gmt":"2020-08-09T00:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=26667"},"modified":"2020-08-08T19:17:12","modified_gmt":"2020-08-09T00:17:12","slug":"based-on-my-personal-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/08\/based-on-my-personal-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"Based On My Personal Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/singlesover50.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"right\">Which is none, by the way, as I am not yet over fifty, but when confronted with an Internet ad like this, I have to say that the answer, currently, is not <em>a dating site on the Internet<\/em>.  I mean, people a couple years older than I am probably did not find their beautiful wife (erm, spouse) on the Internet (a USENET newsgroup, remember, twenty-some years ago) and were not natively born to computers as some of us in the latter Generation X were.  They say that millennials and Generation Z don&#8217;t remember a time without computers and the Internet, but I do.  They&#8217;ve been on the Internet their entire lives, but (as I tell my children), I&#8217;ve been on the Web <em>its entire life<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>So amongst the people I know over fifty who&#8217;ve found love (or at least married), where have they found &#8220;love&#8221;?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Church.<\/li>\n<li>Work.<\/li>\n<li>Widows\/widowers marrying widows\/widowers amongst their friends.  Who knew their lost spouses.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sometimes two of the three, actually.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know; maybe the generation above me or older members of my generation are clicking those links.  I&#8217;d hate to think so, though&#8211;by this point in your life, you should have a good social network and be able to work it if you&#8217;re looking.<\/p>\n<p>But, as I said, my experience is flawed.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>I am NOT YET FIFTY, THANKS, INTERNET.<\/li>\n<li>I am currently married to a beautiful woman whom I currently love (so when I am over fifty, too soon, I will find that love nearby most of the time).<\/li>\n<li>I <em>go to church<\/em> which introduces me to a different set of people than those who don&#8217;t go to church.<\/li>\n<li>I tend to hang out with a crowd that&#8217;s younger than I am.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>So, basically, I have no clue what I&#8217;m talking about, but this is the Internet, so I get to say it as loudly as people who do have a clue.  Also, experts.  Which doesn&#8217;t necessarily overlap too much with &#8220;people who have a clue.&#8221;  However, I am jaundiced enough to think that maybe Internet ads that merge my location with their text probably fall into that &#8220;don&#8217;t have a clue&#8221; segment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Which is none, by the way, as I am not yet over fifty, but when confronted with an Internet ad like this, I have to say that the answer, currently, is not a dating site on the Internet. I mean, people a couple years older than I am probably did not find their beautiful wife [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26667"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26670,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26667\/revisions\/26670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}