Any seeming nostalgia for a time when dating, courtship, matchmaking, marriage, and family formation was more scripted actually masks a deep sense of regret over how indeterminate the millennial cohort seems to be on the most personal, individual level.
But some sociologists, such as Millsom Henry-Waring of the University of Melbourne, have given warning that electronic forms of communication in general and digital-dating services in particular are gradually changing society's conception of relationships andmarriage for the worse by encouraging people to view partners as commodities that can simply be traded in for better versions at the click of a computer mouse.