The Pros And Cons Of Online Dating

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The new trend of finding love on dating site spread rapidly in the United States of America. Fifteen percent of the American adults use online dating services to find love. Not only from teens to 30 year olds, but also 50 and 60 year olds use it. In addition, rate of middle 50s and early 60s year olds make up 12 percent of online daters. Adults of all ages are looking for love, which is the sweatiest behavior in the world. However, Internet dating has lots of problems. 54% of online daters realized that their partner’s profiles were fake, which makes internet dating service dependable. Furthermore, many daters have a relationship without facing each other in reality. One of the reason is that some online dating sites have a random system which …show more content…

Time is needed in order to know the personalities of even close friends, colleagues, or a partner in detail. Therefore, long distance connection without meeting does not allow a partner to get each other. In 2016, 40million Americans use online dating services, which is about 40 % of all Single-Americans. Most online daters have long-distance romances, or just have phone dating even a partner lives in nearby. Laurie Sandell, who used to be one of users in Match.com, was a worker at an investment bank in New York City. Sandell had dated for two years with a man, Jamie, she never met. At the first time of conversation on email, Sandell asked to meet in reality, but Jamie rejected her because he was introverted and terrified to get too close to anyone, so they just had a relationship via phone. One day, Sandell introduced him to her friend through a phone call. After several months, her friend said that she had had a relationship with Jamie for three months and met in reality. Jamie’s personality was false to Sandell. As a result, they broke up. The opposition might support that long-distance online relationship has positive benefits. Daters might develop themselves by focusing individual life, and have strong emotional bond by spend more time to have conversation. During conversation, long- distance lovers talk about themselves …show more content…

Swindlers work easily on internet dating due to the system of making account in online dating services, which can be made with fake personal information. In 2013, more than 105 million dollars were taken away by romance scam reported by the Federal Trade Commission. Furthermore, scammers took more than 82 dollars from victim of online dating during six months in 2014. Women were at 82% of the losses and men sustained the remaining 18 % of losses. Those statistics show online dating scam has been increasing continuously. Americans call scammers in online dating as for catfishes commonly. The catfish makes fake online identity to seduce online daters into romantic relationships. Paula Bonhomme, who was catfished via internet dating, fell in love with Jesse Jubilee James on the Internet and had a deep relationship. Sometimes, James asked gifts which cost around 10,000 dollars. Bonhomme send gifts without hesitation. However, one day James was died by liver cancer suddenly. Bonhomme’s friend asked her to travel to forget him. At that time, Bonhomme discovered accidently that her friend tended to James. Opposes argue that internet dating users can protect themselves by checking carefully and following a guild which tell how to prevent scams-for example, if partners have few or no picture, professional profile, unable to meet, or the use of a virtual phone number, they might be catfishes. However, preventing scams is not easier. Although,

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