Introduction
A. Purpose of Study This thesis explores the way online daters who are aware of the way they present themselves, personally, manage impressions of themselves, with others. Impression Man-agement Theory (CITATION), WHICH INVOLES (X), is and has been widely applied to the investigation of personal descriptions in online profiles on behalf of self-presentation, combined with social desirability. Specifically, the extent to deceive was linked with the expectation to further face-to-face communication, in the field of impression manage-ment, as the literature points out (“POINTS OUT” IS TOO COLLOQUIAL; USE “DEMONSTRATES,” INSTEAD, PLEASE) the mixed model (online/offline; CITA-TION) communication not only allows for grater selectively …show more content…
Profile based online dating sites are electronic venues for people to connect with others based on personal profiles. Thet have attracted scholars’ eyes since 2005 (Pew Research) resulting from the increasing use of computer-mediated communication (Pew Research). Such dating sites offer consumers more accessibilities to interact with people whom s/he may like while reduce possibilities to mismatch (Finkel, Eastwick, Karney, Resis, & Sprecher, 2012). The popularity of online dating also raised concerns among users given that CMC ( Computer-Mediated Communication) reduces commination cues, while phys-ically separating …show more content…
However, the various phases of online dating, “wherein people first meet online and then move offline” (Ellison, Heino & Gibbs, 2006), begs the questions as to why online users tend to misrepresent themselves, given that they know they will be meeting face-to-face. This is especially true because the other would likely feel unsatisfied if one has not been honest in present-ing themselves (Ellison, el at., 2006). This argument is supported by expectancy discon-firmation theory (Bakri & Elkhani, 2012), which, in this instance, would assume that there is a noticeably significantly large discrepancy between the expectation of an attitude object before choosing and the experience during (and after) meeting a date. Individuals may be disappointed in their decisions if the ensuing experience is worse than the expec-tancy (Bakri & Elkhani, 2012), and that would likely make it less likely that someone would date that person a second
A. Purpose of Study This thesis explores the way online daters who are aware of the way they present themselves, personally, manage impressions of themselves, with others. Impression Man-agement Theory (CITATION), WHICH INVOLES (X), is and has been widely applied to the investigation of personal descriptions in online profiles on behalf of self-presentation, combined with social desirability. Specifically, the extent to deceive was linked with the expectation to further face-to-face communication, in the field of impression manage-ment, as the literature points out (“POINTS OUT” IS TOO COLLOQUIAL; USE “DEMONSTRATES,” INSTEAD, PLEASE) the mixed model (online/offline; CITA-TION) communication not only allows for grater selectively …show more content…
Profile based online dating sites are electronic venues for people to connect with others based on personal profiles. Thet have attracted scholars’ eyes since 2005 (Pew Research) resulting from the increasing use of computer-mediated communication (Pew Research). Such dating sites offer consumers more accessibilities to interact with people whom s/he may like while reduce possibilities to mismatch (Finkel, Eastwick, Karney, Resis, & Sprecher, 2012). The popularity of online dating also raised concerns among users given that CMC ( Computer-Mediated Communication) reduces commination cues, while phys-ically separating …show more content…
However, the various phases of online dating, “wherein people first meet online and then move offline” (Ellison, Heino & Gibbs, 2006), begs the questions as to why online users tend to misrepresent themselves, given that they know they will be meeting face-to-face. This is especially true because the other would likely feel unsatisfied if one has not been honest in present-ing themselves (Ellison, el at., 2006). This argument is supported by expectancy discon-firmation theory (Bakri & Elkhani, 2012), which, in this instance, would assume that there is a noticeably significantly large discrepancy between the expectation of an attitude object before choosing and the experience during (and after) meeting a date. Individuals may be disappointed in their decisions if the ensuing experience is worse than the expec-tancy (Bakri & Elkhani, 2012), and that would likely make it less likely that someone would date that person a second