A) What happens when online dating transitions to offline dating?
B) Ramirez, Artemio, Erin Summer, Christina Fleurient, and Megan Cole."When Online Dating Partners Meet Offline: The Effect of Modality Switching on Relational Communication Between Online Daters."Communication & Mass Media Complete. Wiley Blackwell, 17 Sept. 2014. Web. 03 May 2015.
In this article, the authors go quite in depth about online dating communication. Then they eventually transition in to the fact that there is little information about what happens when online dating becomes face-to-face. Because of this, they develop a case study and begin to survey many different men and women who met someone from an online relationship offline. They go in to great detail about how the trial was put on. The results were interesting, the time spent talking online before meeting face to face was a good predictor on how well the relationship would be. If two people were talking online for a long time, they were more likely to have a poor relationship when meeting face to face. If two people were talking online for a short time, they were more likely to have a good relationship when meeting face to face.
This source lets me think about what happens when online dating ends and personal dating begins. It brings about another view and how online relationships CAN work, just some are more likely to succeed than others. I completely agree with this source and it is complete valid. This source supplies me with a LOT of information that i will be able to use in order to answer the above question.
There can be a problem once meeting offline. People can have an idealized image of the person they meet, as well as making themselves look as good as possible. When creating an online profile, "In addition to disclosing more personal information, online daters often portray idealized versions of their selves by revealing socially desirable aspects of their identity, while strategically omitting their less favorable characteristics"(Ramirez) but the problem is that "Studies of speed dating, for example, have shown that the potential partners daters reported feeling romantically attracted to didn’t actually fit the descriptions they had given beforehand of their ideal match."(Bennett). So in other words, you could be missing the right match for you simply because you dont THINK you want them.
The new source has led me to ask if people are more generally let down when they see their online partner in real life, or relieved because they see they are real. My research from here goes to looking in to the chemical side of things; to see if a relationship is destined to be different or looked at differently because of the way they met.
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