I know it's late, but better late than never. :)
Sometimes
going back is the only way to move forward
Today while doing some research on OkCupid I found this
Storify that I made about OkCupid last summer for a class I took. How funny
that now a year later I am writing a story about these same issues that I was
exploring back then.
I thought I would share some of them. Really helping pull my
focus today..
Although dating online is
different from face-to-face interactions with your intended, it might not be as
different as you thought. True dating online is awkward and uncomfortable and
sometimes a little stressful, but so is real life. Dating online forces users
to create their own dating rules, while at the same time reinforces dating mate
preferences that already exist to us. On the one hand people do not always know
what to do when they meet people online so getting to know someone can be
frustrating; by just jumping into a date you must find the style of dating that
works for you. I would like to explore how men date online and what their
experience is like to make their own rules and figure out how to navigate
through the online dating world.
^ This
testimony to online dating is interesting because it claims that the only way
to find a match online is to be a "boring stereotype of your gender"
Lindy West writes. West claims that dating websites have different advise for
men and women. For example men are instructed to post more photos because women
like being able to feel like the have a sense who you are whereas women's
advice for posting pictures is to not put only head shots because men want to
check you out. This is interesting advise because it assumes that men should
show who they are through their photos and women should show what they look
like through their photos. Why do men's pictures of themselves tell who they
are and women's only show what they look like? Looks like Women intelligence is
still measured by their looks or that as long as they are beautiful they don't
have to be intelligent.
Also,
If you YouTube “Shit People Say _______” and add in “online dating” or “dating,”
a mass amount of videos pop up making fun of online dating, what girls say on
first dates, why men never get replies and the list goes on and on. I found
this fascinating when I first found it and it is really helping me fill in the
blanks to my story.
It is
funny how now that I am at the end of this semester, I am back at where the
idea for writing this story first started. The reflection of my real life-dating
spree. Now that I am back at the beginning it is really making me think of who
my character is. Who have I made her? Who should she be? All things to think
about if I ever finish this and make it into a book!
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