Erin Pradia
September 19, 2011
The age of technology has increased speed and convenience, but it has brought its own variety of spam and scams.
While many people testify they found happiness through online dating services, do your chances of finding love outweigh the risk of potential danger of running into a scam or an online predator?
Mary Cay Barker, 48, of Victoria, met her husband of 18 years at college.
"I think there are concerns with dating in any setting," Barker said. "The concerns are just different dating online."
Barker said presenting a different persona online is easier than it is when interacting with someone face-to-face in some other social setting.
Cameron Gomez, 21, of San Marcos, who was visiting friends in Victoria over Labor Day weekend, agreed.
"I think it's a bad idea to date online because you don't know who a person really is until you meet them in-person," Gomez said. "You are basically just talking with a computer."
Gomez said the same setbacks apply with any kind of social networking, including Facebook or Myspace.
"It is hard to even be friends with someone you've never met," Gomez said. "I mean, they could say, 'I'm outgoing,' or 'I love the world,' but how do you really know if you don't have any personal interaction with them?"
Jeanna Bryner in an article for Live Science said online dating can set unrealistic expectations that are shattered when a couple meets in-person.
Michael Norton, of Harvard Business School, conducted a study with his colleagues to target why couples were dissatisfied with online dating.
"We were working with a couple of online dating companies who were finding that their users got very unhappy very quickly with online dating. And the question was why," Norton said. "Inevitably, I'm going to find something we don't agree on. And as soon as I find that one thing, then things start to cascade so everything else I learn about you suddenly now feels like more evidence that we are dissimilar and we don't get along."
Original link: http://www.victoriaadvocate.com/news/2011/sep/18/ep_con_online_dating_091911_151642/?print
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