Negative Effects Of Online Dating

According to the nearest statistic, 11% of American prefers to date online (Dockterman, 2013). However, this result doesn’t mean people satisfy their daters. There are still some risks when people date online like being deceptive. There are some examples about the deceptive. A woman finds appropriate daters online, and they decided to hang out in a specific time. However, when she actually met him, she found that he was 4 inches shorter than the picture and balding. Another example is from my friend, he was searching appropriate daters online. He tries to talk with a girl when he found a nice picture about her. However, he found that she looks completely different with the picture when they first time met with each other. Then he realized that

Internet using has increased rapidly since (Fox, Anderson, and Rainie, 2005; Morales, 2009). According to current population survey data, 37% of U.S. households had at least one computer in 1997; by 2003, this number was 62%. Over the same time period, households with Internet access increased from 18% to 55% (Day, Janus, and Davis, 2005). Technology provides people a stage to meet with each other. There are lots of social networks, for example, Facebook, twitter, and Instagram. In addition, there are lots of certified websites for people to find the suitable daters. People can scan other’s information directly online and that is easier for them to make choice. Once people join a dating website, you can create your own profile before you start contacting with potential matches, and that is convenient because you don’t need to introduce your basic information when you chat with each daters. Most websites allow people to set up with individual information where he or she can find your personal interest, personality, body type, work, and physical attributes. In addition, the dating website provide a chance to include your personal photo in your profile. Before a few decades, people didn’t have lots of advanced technology. Therefore, it’s hard for them to have huge variety of potential matches. People should have face-to-face dating with each dater, and that would make them feel stress and pressure. Lots of women feel

In a US study, there are 66% of Internet users thoughts that online dating was dangerous. For those people who used online dating, 43% thought that it was risky, but 52% of people think it was safe activity. (Madden and Lenhart 2006). There are some different types of risks, for example, sexual risks, emotional risks, and Internet risks. The most important risk is deceit. Internet is full of lies and cheat, because people can use other’s profile to be their own use. There is an experiment from an article named “What are the real and perceived risks and dangers of online dating? Perspectives from online daters” shows the conceptual understanding about online dating risks. This experiment has 29 participants aged between 18 years and 70 years. Twelve participants are females and others are males. The method of this experiment is that interview the participants with theme list. The interviews were in-depth interviews and used a theme list to guide the interviews. The theme list included demographics, general internet usage, online dating usage, perceived benefits and risk of online dating, strategies to manage risks, processes for moving from online to offline meeting and sexual outcomes from online dating. A 38 years old participant said that she want more honesty in her encounters: people lies in the most of time. Lots of men say they are looking for a relationship when in fact they