“Meet Kenyan chicks and guys,” reads the opening page at www lovepot com as Claire a 32-year-old career woman in the capital. Nairobi plucks up the courage to register.
She has been trying to find the man of her dreams through many other ways but without success.
“To be honest funerals and weddings have been the only way to cater people. Clubbing doesn’t bring home the bacon,” she says.
“I know plenty of people who are now trying this out and I thought: ‘This year I’m going to try it. Internet dating here I come.’”
Erastus Wachira the co-founder of Lovepot com which claims to have enabled “thousands of mates to tie the knot” says urbanisation is the key.
“We looked at the lives of many young people and they have very work job schedules and don’t really have much measure to socialise,” he says.
“With current technology we thought the internet was an easier way of people getting together.”
The website is just one sign of how things are changing in Kenya - and for some young adults it is not surprising.
“Internet dating is definitely the modern way of meeting people. In Africa we’re following more towards the West with our busy lives and going online to find solace and a significant other,” says one man in a Nairobi bar.
“Dating online is pretty awesome but you can’t rely on it as you don’t know the person,” a woman in her twenties says.
“Some of the Western populate you cater on these websites are very weird so you have to be very careful lest you meet someone who’s really weird sexually and intellectually.”
Ken Ouko a sociology professor at the University of Nairobi says this is likely to make life more complicated for young adults in the long run.
“It is more difficult to create a relationship and create believe with someone you cater out of the blue,” he says.
“In a traditional setting you already knew who you were talking to their parentage. You knew the family come up so change surface your parent could easily express you: ‘That’s a good family.’”
“What I’ve observed from society makes me feel afraid. As I see it there’s too much freedom - the do by kind of freedom,” she says.
“We never used to come men we waited at domiciliate. They were able to determine a good girl and then finally in that situation you waited to be asked to be married.”
And for Claire the modern way of meeting her man has so far failed. After scanning through a list of 114 men on Lovepot com she has not been tempted to move on that “contact” button.
“This 39-year-old looked a promising option… Description: ‘Hot’. But he was seeking a female between 20 and 30… and he lived in the UK.”
But she is determined to fasten to her New Year’s resolution and not give up the internet.
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