Self-Disclosure Through Weblogs and Perceptions of Online and 'Real-life' Friendships

In her essay, “Digital Dating: Desperation or Necessity?,” Christine Hassler defends online dating from the negative stigma associated with the trend. Despite negative opinion of those who meet their significant other online, Hassler discourages her readers from allowing potential shame result in missed opportunities. Due to the internet’s increased importance in forming connections, digital dating should be utilized as a tool for finding relationships and becoming acquainted with like-minded strangers. Critics can no longer interpret online dating as a last resort for desperate elderlies because of the ingenuity of recent websites (Hassler). Overall, Hassler’s definition of online dating as a tool accurately portrays its practicality; however, her essay does not fully describe the escalated use of the internet among singles or successfully depict its disadvantages, such as the bias she addresses.

Online dating allows singles, couples, or groups to meet each other online with the hopes of forming a social, romantic, or sexual relationship. Those that sign up with an online dating service typically provide information for other members to view in the form of a personal profile. This personal profile is the main deciding factor as to whether or not an online dater chooses to communication with another member of the online dating service. Online dating, a relatively new form of social matchmaking, has both positive and negative aspects to it. Just as any sort of social interaction can have pros and cons. In this topic, I am going to give reasons how on how online dating can be avantage and disvantages to us and what impact it has on

According to the case, the attractiveness of meeting others online instead of finding them in the real world has increased dramatically over the last two decades. The primary drivers

The internet has flipped the world on traditional relationships, and has opened up to the emergence of online, social dating. These online dating site have change the way relationships interact, gossip, flirt and communicate. However, numerous people do not understand the deception and manipulation aspect that comes with online dating. Forming a passionate relationship over the internet under false pretense can be emotionally destructive. Several studies have been performed in an attempt to explain and understand the non-traditional world of online dating. The sources explore and examine the self-presentation of online daters’ and the deception of physical attractiveness in the internet dating world. The significance of online dating is that users can create imagine of description about themselves and attract potential mates, how far will an online dater go to impress others?

The last section in chapter two of Freakonomics, written by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, attempts to answer the following questions; “How forthright (and honest) are people when it comes to sharing their personal information,” and “what kind of information in personal ads is considered the most (and least) desirable” (74)? Throughout this section the authors provide statistical data from an online dating site, which encompassed more than 20,000 users. This data showed that not only are Americans untruthful when it comes to creating their online personal ad, but that they lie to increase their likability. These lies include wealth, height, weight, looks, and race preferences. As well as the lies, there are many people who post pictures of a better looking person or make their own photo more desirable, and then there are those who don’t post a photo at all.

With the digital revolution, people’s relationships are changing. Today, people are no longer required to leave their house to form a new relationship with someone else. “Texting and Writing” by Michaela Cullington describes the impact that text messaging has on the communication skills of people today. Alexis Madrigal in his article “Take the Data Out of Dating” portrays the methods of online date matching. With modern technology and the use of online matching, relationships no longer require face-to-face communication, lack personal emotions, and create a convenient relationship environment.

A study by Rosenfeld and Thomas (2012) observed that 22% of the United States population had found their partner online and that the internet was the third most likely means of meeting a partner for heterosexual couples in 2009 (Rosenfeld & Thomas, 2012). Similar studies have found that 38% of those who are single and looking for a partner have used online dating sites or mobile dating apps (Lenhart & Duggan, 2014). Therefore, the use of digital media in the search for romantic partners is becoming increasingly common. This thesis makes a contribution to this field of study by focusing on how digital media facilitates new ways

We used to connect face-to-face, and talk to people that we in seeing bars and cafes, and it would not seem uncanny, but now since we have the technology it made communication differences. Friends from far away are now connected with the use of the internet, the internet is a wonderful place to stay connected with family and friends, I use it to stay in contact with my friend Ray that’s going to Cal Poly. Nevertheless, sometimes it can be distracting while I’m hanging out with my cousins. Now we communicate through screens and it’s like a norm and we use social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and messaging to do all our “communicating”, but communicating from technology doesn’t show the person 's emotions “Studies show that only 7% of communication is based on the written or verbal word. A whopping 93% is based on nonverbal body language.” (Tardanico). Susan Tardanico experiences that when her daughter attempted suicide. She talked to her before the incident and to Susan she seemed happy but she couldn’t notice her body language and realize that she had depression. Communicating with, a person can only be from one way and that’s from face to face, talking because you can notice what’s happening with them when you 're using technology to talk to the person.

A., Park, N., Song, H., & Cody, M. J., 2010). Research shows that there are different factors that can influence strategic misrepresentation in someone’s online profile when the person lies about who they are and what they look like. Hall found that online dating service users sought a balance between an accurate self-presentation (true self) and a desirable self-presentation (ideal self). It also showed that online misrepresentation is not a rare phenomenon. In their study, 81% of the participants lied about at least one physical attribute in their online profile, although the magnitude of most deceptions was so small that it would be hard to detect in an FtF interaction (Hall, J. A., Park, N., Song, H., & Cody, M. J., 2010). Online dating has become prevalent today. We have become a technological society and people who chose to date online should not be discriminated against. Study shows that 11% of American adults—and 38% of those who are currently “single and looking” for a partner—have used online dating sites or mobile dating apps (Smith, A., & Duggan, M.,

In this paper, I have discussed how online dating is becoming popular and how the individuals are usually deceived by it. I have also discussed how the new television show Catfish is turning out to be a great example of how social media has changed online dating. All in all, I have covered the negative outcomes of online dating.

Self-disclosure is important because it helps you bond with others by learning what you have in common with them, such as ideas, beliefs, and life experiences. While making new friends self-disclosure will help strengthen a friendship by making you examine yourself, tapping into issues and feelings you may not have known you had all along. While fabricating new memories, you have a tendency to become more self –aware as in what personal information you share with your new friend. Will they tell anyone else about my private life? Can my they be trusted? Will my new friend leave me vulnerable to

Since the introduction of the World Wide Web and mainstream use of the internet to access information in 1990, the way people interact with each other has changed. Social media has opened up new mediums for people to communicate with each other. People exchange messages on Facebook, post tweets on Twitter, and “selfies” on Instagram. These new mediums have also changed the way people find romance and love. In this modern era, it is not uncommon to see people dating other people they have met on the internet. This has opened the door for “catfishing”, lying about your true identity on the internet in order to lure someone into a relationship. This has become so common that Molly McHugh of digitaltrends.com4 has described it as an epidemic. This essay will explore how catfishing has developed with the introduction of social media, why people catfish, and why talking over the internet makes it difficult to spot when someone is presenting a false identity. It will also identify the impacts that catfishing has had on society.

Before the World Wide Web was invented in 1990, the preeminent way to interact with people and meet romantic partners was through face-to-face interaction. These days, there are countless websites, social media platforms and applications, such as Facebook, Twitter, Tinder, and match.com, where someone can meet and mingle with other single people. According to Gibbs, Ellison and Lai (2010), “More than 10 million Americans participate in online dating by maintaining memberships or profiles on at least one dating website.” (p. 71) The internet is an amazing resource that gives individuals the ability to share information with millions of people at the same time (Bazarova & Choi, 2014), and it has become a socially acceptable place for people to meet their significant other. (Kang & Hoffman, 2011) It is said that people prefer computer-mediated communication over face-to-face communication to find a romantic partner because of a that lack of face-to-face interaction, (Kang & Hoffman, 2011) Self-disclosure can be defined as the amount of information that one shares with another person, it is essential to the development of relationships, including close friendships, parent-child relationships, and romantic relationships. (Rupees, 2015) Higher levels of self-disclosure have been found to occur more frequently in computer-mediated communication than in face-to-face communication, (Jiang, Bazarova, & Hancock, 2011) and the high levels of self disclosure in online communication has

A social networking site, or SNS, is a platform to build social networks or social relations among people who share interests, activities, backgrounds or real-life connections. (Wikipedia contributors) Social network sites have been increasing at a great speed, and now there are around 1.79 billion social network sites users (eMarketer), which means that more than 60% of internet users are using social network sites. Before SNS comes into people’s lives, self-presentation on internet is regarded as a role-playing game. People did not have to follow the rules in real lives, and they could present themselves in any way they want. However, with SNS, everyone is no more anonymous. On Facebook, my friends can see every photo I like and every comment I make, and they all know that it is me, Yongxin Li, who likes the photo and says these words. It gives me a feeling that everything on Facebook is real.

The Internet has become a major vehicle for social encounters in the last two decades. Through the Internet, people can interact over greater distances in a shorter period and at less expense than in the past. Since the evolution of the Internet, there is less face-to-face interaction and more communication via text messages, emails, and online chatting. This social stigma is up for much debate on how it relates to the progression in romantic relationships. This literature review focuses on how the Internet is utilized as a supportive method of courting used by individuals to meet online in hopes of forming a romantic relationship.