Internet dating and Mail-Order-Bride. Do you think there's a difference?

Question

Please support your yes or now.

Answer 1

Yes, there is a huge difference.  With internet dating, there is no expectation that you will be getting married.   A man looking for a mail order bride is often looking for someone to victimize.  At best, one or both are seeking to use the other.

A mail order bride is SOLELY looking for someone to marry, often in order to get out of poverty situation or to get a green card. Unfortunately, men who latch onto mail order brides often have relationship difficulties.  Many of these women end up beaten up or threatened.   Not all men who seek mail order brides are looking to victimize them.  However, most brides will leave their spouse after the 2 years are up since they now have their green card.

Answer 2

Internet dating is just a vehicle for meeting someone for real-life dating.

A mail-order bride is kind of a business arrangement where a man pays for a woman from a foreign country to join him in the US as his wife.

Answer 3

There is a huge difference. Internet dating is based on mutual attraction based on profiles and photos. BOTH people need to be interested for the relationship to move forward, and you can try going on dates with many people before you commit to someone. One person isn't "purchasing" the other outright.

"Mail order" brides are often forced into the marriage by their families for economic reasons. The "bride" rarely has any say in who gets her. Mail-order brides existed long before the days of internet dating. It was human trafficking then, and it is now. For women who volunteer, they really see it as their only option to improve their economic and social fortunes - if that's your only choice, then it isn't really a choice. There's an aspect of exploitation, even in a volunteer situation.

Answer 4

By internet dating I'm not sure if you mean connecting with the person on the internet and then meeting and continuing the relationship, or if you mean strictly "dating" on the internet and never meeting....I'm going with the latter one.  Either way, yes I believe that they are different....Mail-Order-Bride is from another country and is more one sided - the male chooses who he wants and she comes on over to get married.  With the internet dating both parties are getting to know each other and deciding for themselves what steps to take next based on actual knowledge of the other person.  I can't say that I feel very confident about either method - but that's only my opinion.  

(Now if you were refering to internet dating as connecting with someone on a dating service site, talking/emailing a few times, meeting and then dating from there...then that is a completely different thing then both of the above situations and I actually see that as a more promising method of finding the "perfect" partner.)

Answer 5

Yes internet dating is a way to meet someone you can go out on a date wiht.  Mail order bride is someone from another country who wants to live in this country that your willing to marry.  Difference date verse marry

Answer 6

yes. you do not pay for the person you decide to date on the internet dating to be shipped to your house. You do with mail-order-brides

Answer 7

Internet dating is dating. People get to know each other and decide mutually if they want to meet in person, have a relationship and evolve into marriage etc.

Mail-order is the same as mail-order clothes. It's a catalog where you basically buy someone like a piece of meat.

Answer 8

Heck yes.

With Internet dating, you can at least go on dates and not make any major commitments until you're both ready and realize you're compatible.

Mail-order-brides forces two people together without any chance of seeing if it works before tying the knot. It's basically the same same as arranged marriages, and I have no idea why some people still do that.

Answer 9

nope, they're both equally lame and stupid, and only around for a way to get illegal terroists in this country.

Answer 10

Of course.  While both methods involve communicating over the internet, that's the only similarity.  With Internet dating, you are mutually interested in meeting people on an equal footing, with both parties equally interested in the other and meeting of their own free will.  With mail-order brides, these women are trying to come to America...they want a green card, and are offering themselves as submissive wives for the privilege of getting one.  It's very unequal and problematic.  The guy abuses her, or she learns Western ways and doesn't play the submissive wife anymore, he ends up divorced and she doesn't get her green card.  I've known a couple of successful situations, but most have been duds.

Answer 11

There is! internet dating you pay for services

mail order bride you pay for a women

Answer 12

I see the two as very different.

Internet dating is 2 people each looking to find someone.  Free will and all that.

Mail order bride seems much more exploitive.  A man in a developed country searching for a bride from (usually) a less developed country.  The woman looking to better her life by moving to another country.

Answer 13

they are COMPLETELY different.

Internet dating is when you are able to date someone through conversations on the internet, getting to know who they are, and eventually might meet.

a maid order bride is when some guy orders a women to marry him without meeting them prior. It is for women who want to come to the US or any other developed country in hopes of escaping their country.

Answer 14

Yes, big difference!

Mail-order bride is a label applied to a woman who publishes her intent to marry someone from another - usually more developed - country.  Historically, mail-order brides were women who listed themselves in catalogs and were selected by men for marriage.

Online dating or Internet dating is an example of a dating system and allows individuals, couples and groups to meet online and possibly develop a romantic or sexual relationship. Net dating services provide un-moderated matchmaking through the use of personal computers, the Internet, or even cell phones.

Such services generally allow people to provide personal information, then search for other individuals using criteria such as age range, gender and location.