David Young, a retired professor who now actively works at the Career Center at Cerritos College, spoke Friday at the Teleconference Center on the topic of love and technology.
Young’s presentation ranged from many different subtopics such as caring for an individual, religion, love in different cultures, online dating, and much more.
Young mentions how the idea for the topic came about. “Steven (psychology student) came to me with the subject (love via technology). This was when Manti Te’o (who had an online girlfriend hoax situation) was in the news.” This, Young thought, students would relate to.
The presentation had an emphasis on online dating, the good and bad of relationships on websites and how dangerous it can be.
“Each dating online site is different in many different ways. One might be better than others,” Young said, “but I feel online relationships aren’t real relationships.”
Young spoke about how hard trusting someone is and said “people think if they can trust then others are trustworthy.”
“Technology makes things complicated, the idea is if I let the web do the heavy lifting then I wont be invested in any one girl because there are so many others,” Young said referring to dating websites.
Young mentions the key to his presentation is to encourage people to love more and for people to find love.
Communications major Gene Arroyo attended the presentation and felt it was great.
“I thought it was really educational. (Young) was a good speaker and we related to what he was saying,” Arroyo said, “I thought the topic was very compelling. It was an eye opener to how to really love someone.”
Adrian Gomez, the historian for the Psychology Club, was really enthused about what Young spoke about.
“The presentation was a really good advocate for creating and spreading love and loving people for who they are,” Gomez said.
He felt he had a connection with the topic, “I find myself pondering about this subject daily.”
He believed “confidence creates opportunity,” a key element of Young’s presentation.
