Continuing Stigma Of Online Dating

Online Dating As a modern day teenager, I have had several experiences with social media. It is a great way to communicate and keep in touch with friends. Nowadays Social networking sites are all the rage. People now are starting to use social networking sites to mingle and communicate with people that aren’t there in person with them; this can be called online dating. Billie E. Cali, PsyD, Jill M. Coleman, PhD, and Catherine Campbell, PhD are all the writers of the article “Stranger Danger? Women’s Self-Protection Intent and the Continuing Stigma of Online Dating”, established for Cyberpychology, Behavior, and Social Networking. They claim that online dating is not safe for women and how their behavior changes due to meeting a stranger. They

Their hypothesis is that they predict that the stigma that surrounds online initiated relationships would motivate women to think about protecting themselves in a way before meeting a stranger face to face. Also other studies states, “that online dating stigma is likely to be stronger among people who have little or no experience dating people that they have met online”, in my opinion I find it to be true. Then they state that, “they predicted that women who have never dated someone online would be more likely to emphasize self protection than with prior online dating experience.” What they are stating as their hypothesis corresponds to my opinion of the topic as well. They then create a method, in which they collected data from 83 women at a private Midwestern university. There was only one outlier revealed from the data. In one scenario it was an online dating site while another was a brief face-to-face interaction. Stated in the article, after reading the scenario the participants preferred engaging in self-protection behaviors if they were in that situation. Their prediction was correct from the data they collected. Their hypothesis was proven correctly, but their argument was weak to me in my eyes as they only stated about women and their protection instead of both the genders. They did not state the method of online dating, whether if it was through a verified dating service or just on social networking site. They only used the classical operation to analysis only their topic instead of exposing both of the sides like the rogerian