The openness, individuality, and low threshold of the online hookup apps are the technical factors for the prevalence of such apps. It is these network attributes that ignite people’s dating passion in the special background and social environment. Besides, these hookup platforms have played a huge role in changing the ways of interpersonal communication.
However, the rationality of technology does not affect the correct perception and judgment of adult chat apps. The rapidly developing chat apps can hardly conceal its adverse effects.
Online adult chat apps gather like-minded people or people with a common purpose, which provides great convenience for interpersonal communication, and create a new way of dating outside the real society. The excessive addiction to adult chat apps inevitably aggravates the social alienation of people in certain aspects. More and more interactions have shifted from the real society to the Internet. However, virtual social interaction cannot replace real social interaction, and this mutually obstructed communication method cannot become the mainstream of interpersonal communication. Otherwise, over-dependence will reduce people's ability to communicate with each other.
Online chat apps are very similar to the real social environment, and online dating can improve real social skills. If you rely too much on online chat apps, or even regard them as the only communication or hookup channel, it will be difficult to conduct effective interpersonal communication in the real social environment.
Adult chat apps are extremely open hookup platforms, and they have unique advantages in the interpersonal relationships. It is necessary for us to provide more stringent requirements and norms for the information dissemination and organization of these platforms to guide them to play their positive functions. The competition for commercial interests has caused a lot of false information, obscene, pornographic, and violent content, so people using adult chat apps are more likely to be deceived. In addition, more and more people are facing the risk of being blackmailed after hooking up with or dating others they met on the hookup video chat app. Therefore, it is necessary to improve the special laws and regulations for the operation and management of online adult chat apps and strengthen their supervision and self-discipline to create a healthy and orderly hookup environment. If so, more and more people will have good user experiences, and they are more likely to find their loves.
