LU: You wrote: “Yes, technology is causing the shidduch crisis. If it weren’t for technology, people wouldn’t be able to post narishkeit about the shidduch crisis in the CR.”
This is absolutely brilliant! I agree.
We have several problems here. Firstly, is there a shidduch crisis? It seems to me to resemble the discussion about climate change. You first decide if you want this to be a problem, then get enough people to buy into it, then fashion the science and scientists around it. There have been some rather educated discussions, with analysis of data. Not terribly scientific, but a good try. Even that yields no real conclusion. All we really know is that specific singles are struggling to find their shidduch.
Secondly, the trend seems to be to place the technology, internet, smartphones, etc. as the universal cause for problems. This happens to make very little sense. It is like blaming the Vietnam War on technology. It might sound good. But whatever “shidduch crisis” is believed to exist, it predated technology by many years.
Like everything else, technology is widely used, and some aspects of it can easily contribute to various problems. Can one blame lashon horah on social media? I wouldn’t doubt the contributions to LH by social media. But the problem existed eons ago. Schmutz existed as far back as one can study history. We all know what the oldest profession was. The internet facilitated matters, and greatly reduced effort needed to do these aveiros. Did technology cause it? Bupkis!