Topic
The Dating Website
Instructions
This week you have read research on the theories of relationships, intimacy, love, social identity, self categorization, and social comparison. Now you will have a chance to showcase what you have learned by creating a recommendation based on this scenarioabout the dreation of a dating website.
Your post should be approximately 500 words in length and include appropriate APA-style citations and references as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center. In addition to citing the assigned works you read this week, please locate and cite at least two more peer-reviewed journal articles on any of the areas studied this week to support your position. These articles should be recent (published within the last 10 years).
Guided Response: Review several of your colleagues’ posts and respond to at least two of your peers. In your responses, ask your fellow classmates some follow-up questions or provide suggestions. You may want to ask them to clarify some things, identify some potential issues they may want to consider, and provide them with some suggestions regarding their recommendations. Continue to monitor the discussion forum until 5:00 p.m. MST on Day 7 of the week and respond to anyone who replies to your initial post.
Answer Preview
Most of people engaging in online dating fabricate a very new persona to represent themselves (Ellison, Hancock, & Toma, 2011). Some use deception for smoothing out their value in respect to being potential socially interactive person, such as pretending to like a dater’s ponytail when in actual sense the match finder hates the hairstyle. In another perspective, many online daters practice the conceptualization and rationalization of discrepancies in self-presentation on online profiles mostly to accomplish certain psychological and social goals. For example, some online daters use deception as a strategy of attracting desirable potential partners. Some of the most common strategy used is lying of one’s age, uploading a picture of him or herself at younger age, lying about working in white color job when in fact the person does casual jobs, lying about residential area of living, among others.
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