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Though out the past two weeks in our lecture class we have discussed Relationships and Attraction, Friendship, Goup Dynamics, Social Netwoking Diagrams, and Facebook. Today I will be discussing Relationships and Attractions as well as online dating.

The key to online dating is to develop a relationship of chatting and/or emailing synchronously before meeting face to face. When people meet online at first they value anonymity. In other words this means that people value the way in which they can control how much information they can dispute, whether it is a lot or a little at first.  A perfect example of this is online dating. Those people who use the internet to look for a significant other or to pass some time eve. The reality of the matter is that online dating isn’t the only reason why people seek to speak to other online. People go online to have cybersex, to flirt or to just be themselves.

In our lab class we were shown a video of an actual Tv show that was aired where we saw the results of those people who looked for people online to get into a long relationship. We saw a case of a woman who was emotionally involved with a man who cite her at a church and stood her up. However, he did not give up and continued her search she found a man across the globe, who she could barely understand. Someone who she gave her number to after a long time of talking and never called her. One day he asked her to marry him and she went took a plane left … the results? Well amazingly he was real J What are the likelihoods then and now for a person who says they are isn’t really that person? The chances are very big which in my case I was really surprised because I didn’t believe he was real.

                Cybersex or the exchange of synchronous messages. It is believed that Cybersex helps long distance relationships, but how about those who are single? It is not a surprise that more men than women go online seeking cybersex. In the video shown to us there was such a case. A man who wasn’t too confident because of his height so he used the internet in a way that satisfies him sexually. He found an older woman who was rich and even offered him to take him on a cruise at no price. He then noticed that she or cybersex wasn’t what he wanted. He wanted a significant other. After many tries of talking to different women, some of which looked very different from their profile pictures, he found his soul mate. Someone who he highly believed wasn’t the person in the picture. Can you blame him after his experiences with other woman and online dating? No

                They had a few ups and downs but yet again who doesn’t? They fell in love and formed a family. He began as someone who had no self-esteem to someone who had a really high one. Online dating is not as bad it has its risks just like regular dating just a little different, but yet again nothings the same either.