Online Dating Vs Facebook

In the article “Can You Really Trust the People You Meet Online?” by Gwendolyn Seidman she talks about how honest or dishonest people can be online. Seidman talks about how honest people might actually be online. She then transitions into how dishonest people can be and how people can misrepresent themselves offline. Finally Seidman talks about the impact of social media, since everyone is connected someway somehow. Honest means free of deceit and untruthfulness; sincere. Being honest to people builds their trust along with your friendships. When surfing the internet and looking through social media people are more apt to be honest on places such a facebook rather than online dating sites.
Online honesty varies from sight to sight. Facebook is a good site for honest people. Facebook is where we’re all connected to family members and friends, posting pictures of us and commenting on our stuff. In a Facebook private message -you and the other person may actually be especially authentic in how you present your personality(Seidman 2014). Facebook is a good place to meet honest people. Online dating is hard to begin
This creep might not just being lying about his appearance but he could be lying about age and gender even. I don’t like the idea of people using online dating for the reason of not knowing who they are talking to. I feel as if meeting people on social media like snapchat or facebook is safer. On snapchat you can see who they are physically and who they hang-out with. Along with their stories that can tell you what type of person they are from a party type of person or a person who hangs out at home with their family. On facebook you can tell who they are by what they post along with what their family posts and says about them. These two types of social media's help build a personality about that person, to give you a better idea of who they are outside of your