Online Dating Research Paper

Online dating is a something when someone first sees your profile they must like you right away. The way that a viewer of profile reacts will be the key to if they are going to want to go on a date and meet you or if they are just never going to look at the profile again. But the nice thing about these profiles is that you can put what you want people to know about you and what you do not want people to know about you. So basically anyone that is going to make a profile is going to pump themselves up to be something that they might not really be. Egan explains "Dating profiles are works in progress, continually edited and tweaked, fortified with newer, more flattering pictures. If they were physical documents, they would have the velvety, dogeared texture of beloved children's books or nineteenth-century family Bibles." (277). What Egan is trying to show is that no matter what you think of yourself on your
If you look good in the photograph then most likely someone is going to want to talk to you but if you do not look very good in the photograph then you are not going to get as many people talking to you. So the key to getting a good first impression is a great photograph of you. Egan states " ‘I'm no photographer,' Greg writes […] ‘but I've spent a lot of time trying to take sexy pictures of myself for these ads, and the good ones have produced lots of responses' Greg estimates that he has gone out with between 30 and 50 women he met online since he first posted a profile nearly three years ago." (278). From that statistic itself you can see that in order to get a good amount of dates you have to a good looking picture to sell yourself. Basically all this websites are is a place to pimp yourself out to strange people so that you may have the possibility to go out and get lucky or start some kind of