References

Alec. (2015, March 16). [Personal interview by the author].

I have conducted a series of questions asking:

1) Age

2) Do you use a Dating App or Dating website? If so what do you use?

3) Why did you decide to use this?

4) Have you had success on this?

5) What do you think of the people on it?

6) Have you had a bad experience when meeting boy/girl in person?

Best, K., & Delmege, S. (2012). The filtered encounter: Online dating and the problem of
filtering through excessive information. Social Semiotics, 22(3).
This journal is about how people should filter out some things that they put up on their
profile and the techniques that you can do to do so. This also talks about how a
potential dater wants to look at a persons profile and what he/she put on it a critical.
This all determines weather you will be a yes or a no. So if you don't put all of your
information out there in the "About Me" box you look more presentable and more
attractive maybe.

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Couch, D., Liamputtong, P., & Pitts, M. (2012). What are the real and perceived risks and
dangers of online dating? Perspectives from online daters. Health, Risk & Society, 14,
698-713.
This journal is mainly about how online dating can be very risky. This article shows
that online daters perceive to be the risks of onlinedating, along with providing
accounts of dangers and risky situations encountered by online daters. The
interviewers conducted online in depth interviews with 29 participants on their views
with online dating.
Ellison, N., Heino, R., & Gibbs, J. (2006). Managing impressions online: Self-presentation
processes in the online dating environment. Journal of Computer-Mediated
Communication, 11(2), 415-441.
This journal is about a study that investigates self-presentation strategies that online
users do in order to find a match of what they are on. This was conducted of 34
people on a largely known online dating site. While these people were making their
profile they found it hard to be totally honest because then they would think that
others wouldn't find them attractive. This shows that it is hard to be honest with
online profiles because of how judgmental we are now a days.
Finkel, E. J., Eastwick, P. W., Eastwick, B. R., Reis, H. T., & Sprecher, S. (2012). Online dating:
A critical analysis from the perspective of psychological ccience. Psychological Science
in the Public Interest, 13(1).
This journal is talking about the different ways that some people meet from and the
different sites that people go on. This journal also says that almost half of the people

we meet of of these dating sites we never even end up meeting. This also shows
graphs one in particular that shows a percentage of americans who met their partners
online. Its shows graphs that say what kind of site that you can go on for certain
purposes.
Smith, A., & Duggan, M. (2013, October). Online dating & relationships. Washington D.C: Pew
Research.
This is about how different age groups find their "match" and what kind of sites or
apps that they use as well. This report also has many stats in it as well.Such as:
Opinions of online dating, Familiarity with online dating through others, Checking on
past relationships and posting details from dates on social networking sites, Negative
relationship experiences on social networking sites,Opinions of online dating and
many more. I think that this will be very helpful to me in finding out more on online
dating
Toma, C. L., & Hancock, J. T. (2012). What lies beneath: The linguistic traces of deception in
online dating profiles. Journal of Communication.
In this journal there were two studies that were conducted. The first one that was
conducted was about the deceptions that people do to make there online profile more
interesting. They lied a lot about themselves to make them feel better internally. The
second study that was conducted was about how because people did this it made them
less trustworthy. The finding that they found was that lots of people did this, and they
are very concerned with a lot of deception.
Valkenburg, P. M., & Peter, J. (2007). Who visits online dating sites? Exploring some
characteristics of online daters. Cyberpsychology & Behavior, 10(6), 849-852.

The aim of this study to investigate the predictors of online dating and the validity of
two opposite hypotheses that explain users tendency to use the Internet for online
dating: the social compensation and the rich-get-richer hypotheses. They did a
questionnaire on 360 single people to a select number of people from the ages of 1860. Its was shocking to know that the people in ages to 30-50 were using the online
dating more than the younger people. And the people with low anxiety of dating were
using the sating sites more as well.
Victoria. (2015, March 16). [Personal interview by the author].
I asked multiple questions like: What is your age? Have you used an online or app
dating website before/ if so what did you use? Why did you decide to use it? Have you
had success on it? What did you think of the other people on it? Any bad experiences
on it or when you met in person?
Xia, P., Liu, B., Sun, Y., & Chen, C. (2015, January 27). Reciprocal recommendation system for
online dating [Editorial]. Retrieved March 8, 2015, from http://arxiv.org/ website:
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1501.06247.pdf
Its about how they introduce similarity measures that show the the unique features and
characteristics of the online dating network, such as: the interest similarity between
two people if they send messages to same users, and attractiveness similarity if they
receive messages from same people. Our results that they come up with also reveal
some interesting behavioral difference between men and women when it came to
looking for potential dates. The guys are more out there while the women are more
introverted about themselves.