Slideshow about the hookup culture on DU's campus with an emphasis on social media's contribution.

1. It’s been argued that today’s college students
don’t know how to date. The advancement of
technology has impacted this generation by
weakening face-to- face interaction skills.

2. This generation tends to
meet each other, start
hooking up, and then gets
to know one another; a
backwards approach to
dating.

3. The use of smartphones
and social media apps
contribute to the dating
scene by making people
more reachable. Texting
has become the biggest
platform for college
students to communicate
through.

4. Texting has also
led to that regretful
drunk text.

5. “Social media
makes dating hard
at first because
you’re able to hide
behind a screen and
judge others,” noted
Sofia Lanzafame, a
sophomore at DU.

6. “Social media makes
people more insecure
in their relationships
when everyone is liking
and judging people
online,.” said Kelsey
Asevedo, a sophomore
at DU.

7. In 2012, the dating app Tinder
was released. The app is known
as being a platform for casual
relationships or hookups, rarely
leading to anything serious.

8. The majority of students
interviewed agreed that
DU’s dating life is almost
non-existent. In fact,
developing feelings is more
or less frowned upon.

9. Students cling on to the
casual hookups because
they don’t have the
patience to wait for a
relationship to blossom.

10. Asevedo said, “The
typical sexual
relationship is casual
hooking up and then one
person gets more
attached and then it’s
over.”

11. Lanzafame would like to see
dating become more popular
instead of the typical judgment
online or the random hooking up.

12. Buck also would prefer more of a dating
scene where people are more open to
friendly communication.

13. “I think that it can be done. Going to a pretty
small school,you see people more than once
a week. It’s easy to start and keep up with
connections,.” Gravitt said.