Facebook: Facebook And Facebook: Dating And Use Of Facebook

Ted Sawchuck believes facebook has become widely popular and is used today to find out information about a person before actually getting to know them face to face. Teds process after meeting someone and simply finding out their name is to head to facebook.com and search them. He then tries to get to know as much as he can about the person from their facebook page. This includes getting to know their age, indicate whether or not she is taken, and gives him a decent idea of what image she is trying to present. Once he is finished with facebook he then heads to google.com to search her name, email address, nickname etc. After searching online about this person he then decides if it can be a probable friendship or romantic interest. He also believes

I do not believe the internet should be used to form a opinion about someone because getting to know them in person. Facebook.com allows you to choose what you want people to see and what you don’t. If someone were to go to my facebook page they would only be seeing a small glimpse of who I am. If someone were to go on my facebook page just after a night out with my girls and the first thing they see are pictures of me at a night club they may get the wrong idea about me. Just because that weekend I had a girl’s night out doesn’t mean I go out every weekend. To be honest I never drink, Im usually at home with my niece and nephew watching Disney channel singing along to their favorite songs. On page 356 in the 3rd paragraph Sawchuck does say “ I have serious doubts as to whether being able to download someone’s self with a little searching on facebook and google is actually a good thing for beginning a relationship.” This I completely agree with. I believe the older generations or as my grandmother says “People born with Old souls” know the importance of personal connections through physical contact which then provides a better emotional contact as well. Physical and emotional contact helps the relationships grow and develop a deeper contact that cant come from Online chatting, social media or webcams. He then to discuss how online provides new avenues

This day in age there are a large amount of online relationships. About 35% of all relationships now start out online, 22% of these relationships do not become physical relationships. Meaning the couple chooses to just keep their relationship going threw communicating threw the phone, internet and skype. Many of these relationships are now being called “catfish”. There is a television show on MTV called “catfish”. This is when one of the people in the relationship is using a fake profile to talk to people. The entire relationship is based off of a lie. They avoid meeting in person and normally say they live a far distance away to avoid the chances of meeting in person. So many young people choose to keep and or start relationships online because it may be easier to be yourself. You have a computer screen in front of you and are able to be yourself more rather than in person when it’s face to face and can be much more intimidating. Once someone becomes comfortable online and has developed many friendship and romantic relationships the chance of them getting back out in real life and trying to socialize with people becomes less and less. I don’t think choosing the internet to meet people is a very good idea. Like Sawchuck said in his article “ I have serious doubts as to whether being able to download