Couch, Danielle, and Pranee Liamputtong. "Online Dating And Mating: Perceptions Of Risk And Health Among Online Users." Health, Risk & Society 9.3 (2007): 275-294. Academic Search Complete. Web. 2 Apr. 2014.
In a study conducted to compare the risk of sexually transmitted infection transmission for persons who seek sex partners through the internet, in comparison with the risk for persons not seeking sex partners online, it was found that: the online persons had a greater number of partners than offline persons; were more likely to have had a sexually transmitted infection previously; and were more likely to have used a condom during their last sex encounter.
This article provides research evidence of the risk of contracting an HIV or STI through the open accessibility of the internet. I will utilize the research in order to prove my point that it is more likely to contract HIV through online dating sites. In my argument proving that the growing accessibility to the internet has increased the number of members per site and the number of STI’s contracted because of not full knowing the partner you are engaging sexual contact with.
Coleman, Phyllis. "Online Dating: When "Mr. (Or Ms.) Right? Turns Out All Wrong, Sue The Service!." Oklahoma City University Law Review 36.1 (2011): 139-183. Academic Search Complete. Web. 2 Apr. 2014.
Another concern is that the number of misrepresentations in profiles may create problems as couples learn more about their spouses after the wedding; one of the primary fears that people have about online dating is encountering sexual predators.
This article allows access to proof of the fears, dangers and misconception to be used in my article. It also states the percentages of user who have met...
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...ished the danger factors of scamming through dating in the romance department as well as the security and privacy section.
Toma, Catalina L., and Jeffrey T. Hancock. "What Lies Beneath: The Linguistic Traces Of Deception In Online Dating Profiles." Journal Of Communication 62.1 (2012): 78-97. Academic Search Complete. Web. 16 Apr. 2014.
This article presents the deceptions of online dating through the users profiles through self-presentation, emotions and trustworthiness.
I will be using this article to represent the ways someone disguises their profile in order to grasp someone attention to scam them. The research within this article represents all the deception used on online dating websites. Two study were used both computer and human studies which allows me both the online aspect and the real aspect of the risks of online dating and falsifying information.
We have all watched television shows, we have heard the warnings, and have read numerous articles that expose internet predators and pedophiles. Most of us are aware of the dangers surrounding children and teenagers as they navigate the internet’s virtual world. There is no shortage of predators online. Chris Hanson has a very popular show called To Catch a Predator that has helped bring awareness to the public of this heinous crime against children, and while this is extremely important to know and prevent, there is another large segment of society that is at risk too. This paper will focus on this “other” population.
Flirting is a technique used by people in order to attract a certain type of person. As IISuperwomanII (2015) describes, flirting has changed dramatically since the introduction of technology. “E-flirting” is a type of flirting IISuperwomanII says is the most common in the present because of all the applications the internet and social media can have. Physical beauty standards have also changed since the 1940’s. For example, modest clothing and natural beauty were the norms of fashion trends in the 1940’s whereas today fashion is notably less conservative. Women and girls will often wear revealing clothing in order to gain male’s attention and wear makeup that may be considered exotic by 1940’s standards. Researchers have also commented one the changing society. “But first impressions are important - and have become more so as societies become increasingly mobile and urbanised and as contacts with people become more fleeting.” (Berscheid, 1981; cited in Myers, 2013) This is when online dating plays a role. In the past, the thought of picking a life partner through something similar to a television screen would have been absurd. But now, online dating is quickly becoming a norm of dating.
One of the signs your online date may be a sociopath is charm and charisma. According to Presno (2007), “An everyday sociopath doesn’t come out and say, ‘I want to take all I can from you and then throw you away at will.’ H...
The first principle being that people react to things on the basis of the meanings they have for them. To begin to determine the meanings people have for online dating, it would be helpful to look at the type of sites they are searching on, joining and essentially advertising themselves on. Someone who frequents a site like ‘match.com’ likely has very different meanings and intentions in regards to online dating than someone on a site like ‘Ashley Madison’ where the goal is simply to have an affair. In Blumer’s second step, where people derive meaning from their social interactions, sociologists might look at the type of social interactions between peers both online and off. They could be engaging in this activity because they know other people who have been successful, or maybe they have simply been unsuccessful through conventional routes. Maybe they feel the need to find someone because their friends are in relationships and they have a desire to fit in utilizing whatever means necessary. The third step is an interpretive process; that is the person takes everything they have learned about the meanings tied to online dating and adds their own interpretation to it. Maybe someone interprets online dating as simply the only way to get a date now, or maybe their interpretation is that it’s one of many methods used to try to to meet
And the heart, even in this commercial age, finds a way”(222)—implying that, although not perfect, online romance can work. He evidences his statement by illustrating how online dating “slows things down” (221), “puts structure back into courtship” (221), and “is at once ruthlessly transactional and strangely tender” (221). For example, he describes how couples might “exchange email for weeks or months” (221) when using a dating site, effectively slowing the dating process and adding more structure to courtship. He displays the transactional and sensitive side of Internet dating when he points to Internet exchanges between couples that “encourage both extreme honesty (the strangers-on-a-train phenomenon) and extreme dishonesty, as people lie about their ages, their jobs, whether they have kids and, most often, whether they are married” (222).
Toma, C. L., Hancock, J. T., & Ellison, B. N. (2008). Separating fact from fiction: An examination of deceptive self-presentation in online dating profiles. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 34, 1023-1036.
Today it is no longer a novelty to hear that teenagers are having sex. However, while this “bedroom” activity may be fun, there are now ample reports indicating that rates of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) in teenagers have skyrocketed. Current data reveal that nearly 25% of adolescent girls who have sex are infected with one of the four commonly sexually transmitted infections-namely gonorrhea, chlamydia, herpes and HIV (Kann et al, 2015). Nationally, the prevalence of STDs account for 50% of cases in people under the age of 25. While every ethnic and race has been known to be affected, African American youth are disproportionately affected. These data are not a surprise to professionals who are engaged in adolescent sexual health because the numbers have been slowly creeping up over the decades, despite national educational policies to counter the threat of STDs (Sales & DiClemente, 2016). All the STDs have a significant impact on sexual and reproductive health, if they are mot promptly diagnosed and treated. Although many preventive strategies have been implemented in all communities, the rates of STDs are still increasing (Madkour et al, 2016).
In 2011 a woman Carole Markin sued Match.com for not screening its users and allowing for the opportunity for her to be raped by convicted sex offender Alan Wurtzel, a man with whom she was paired with through the website (Horcher 1). Markin was subjected to completely unnecessary trauma due to the fact the site she was using did not keep very good track of what kind of people they allowed to sign up. Ideally sites would step up and conduct these procedures without issue or complaint but even after this case was presented, Match.com continued to denounce screening its users until they were forced to settle with Markin and agree to the process. Match also agreed to cross reference members with the national sex registries, but “the agreement is not legally binding or enforceable” (Horcher 2). Match.com is only one example of websites abusing their freedom at the cost of their users safety and peace of mind. Dating fraud is prevalent in today’s society, a world that runs on Wi-Fi. Any person can effortlessly sign up somewhere online, create a new identity for themselves, and no one would be the wiser. Not until scam hits or the registered sex offender organizes a physical meeting, but by then it is too
With technology advances steadily in today’s society, individuals steadily advance too. One of these aspects includes dating. Individuals in today’s society hope to find companionship through online dating websites so that someday some online daters might be able to find a companion. With websites like eHarmony, Match, Christian Mingle, OkCupid, Black People Meet, and JDate, finding the one seems to be easier and more convenient than ever. Most of these websites even display statistics showing that one out of five relationships start online. The questions that should be asked, is this a better and safer option than looking for the one in person? Individuals tend to ignore the possible risks involving online dating. They are willing to release personal information from pictures of oneself, to locations of where they work, or live just for the possibility of finding a companion. The online users have to ask themselves: is the risk worth it in the end, or does the benefit outweighs the cost? When searching for a companionship through online dating websites, negative aspects such as profiles, self-presentation, self-disclosure, predators and sexual mishaps, may outweigh the positive aspects and cause more problems and strife then actual good.
Dating nowadays has evolved into something similar to a math equation. Technology has changed society and culture so much in the 21st century that something which did not seem normal probably 30 years ago seems mundane now: meeting people via computer. In order to find the most compatible person, suddenly people are not able to find “the one” and need the help of a computer to tell them who their personality matches with, causing many people to not develop proper social skills along with confidence. People have different relationship goals which they wish to achieve, be it through either traditional or online dating. Although traditional and online dating have many similarities, at the same time they are very different when it comes to the
In conducting this project, we find out that although online dating is more convenient to broaden their social groups than the traditional methods, the safeness is still under a concern and it will have more negative outcomes in the society. The users should be more careful on using online dating to have safety precautions and protect their personal privacy.
After a length amount of time of talking, people decided to meet. There have been so many horror stories about this. For example, [1] In January of 1998, a man meet a woman over the Internet called L. He thought he was in “true love”, because of all the time they spent chatting and talking over the telephone. He also thought he could trust her...
Whitty. M. T (2005), The Realness of Cybercheating: Men’s and Women’s Representations of Unfaithful Internet Relationships. Social Science Computer Review [Online] 23 (1) p. 57-67.
The human need for affiliation creates the challenges and rewards of finding acquaintances, forming close friendships, as well as intimate relationships. Through technological advances cyberspace, or the internet, has become a place of multiple opportunities for people to be able to fulfill that need for affiliation. Websites, chat rooms, and online communities are just some examples of virtual platforms for people to seek others, come together, and find that special someone. These opportunities can result in positive outcomes allowing people to achieve what or whom they were seeking, but they can also result in harm to themselves and others, resulting with damaging consequences. Cyberspace does not come with a warning label. People who use the internet as a means to seek relationships are at risk of being exposed to positive as well as negative results. Being made aware of some of those risks and dangers, and realizing that forming relationships on the internet is not all fun and games, may be ways to help promote a positive future for cyberspace as a place to form successful relationships.
The article “Love Via The Internet”[3]. The writer started the article by showing her own opinion clearly about the long distance relationships through the dating websites “I'm having doubts about a long-distance relationship that started through a dating site.”[3]. Then she started to give an example of a relationship via the...