In response to the question, "What's your biggest fear or hesitation about starting online dating?" the answer "fear you will be ridiculed by others for being on online dating websites" was the most popular with 35.3% of respondents choosing this as their answer. The next most popular answer was "fear the other person may be misrepresenting themselves" with 32.4% of respondents choosing it. Close after, with 23.5% was "fear of that first uncomfortable meeting." These three answers were the top chosen, all being over 20%.
Interesting enough, more people were skeptical about online dating for fear of being ridiculed by others. What does this say about online dating? The term itself holds many negative connotations and so it is necessary to examine it. Unlike social media sites such as Twitter, where celebrities and fans take part in the game of self-presentation and are proud to associate themselves with a persona, people who use online dating sites are not as keen on others knowing they participate. This could be for many reasons. For one, the negative stigma that only "losers" use online dating to find someone does exist. (Miller, 2011) Although online dating has become significantly more popular, the social acceptance of meeting a significant other is important. Because online dating is still relatively "new" (in comparison with more traditional ways of meeting someone) it is less popular in most eyes. Online dating is also looked at negatively because of deception. People are skeptical to use an online dating service when they believe that people on the service are lying about themselves or lying about being single. Research shows that many, if not most, people are deceptive in their online dating profiles, even if the deception is very small.
My results show that most people have had both positive and negative experiences with online dating, similar to real world experiences. Respondents also indicated that relationships started from online dating are about the same as those they started in the "real world."
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