TY - GEN
T1 - Impression management struggles in online dating
AU - Zytko, Doug
AU - Grandhi, Sukeshini A.
AU - Jones, Quentin
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2014 ACM.
PY - 2014/11/9
Y1 - 2014/11/9
N2 - Online dating systems are now widely used to search for romance and yet there is little research on how people use these systems to manage their impressions with potential romantic partners. To address this issue we conducted an interview study of 41 online dating users, revealing that-contrary to prior work-online daters largely do not want to intentionally deceive their online dating partners because they think such lies would quickly be discovered face-to-face. Nevertheless, bad first dates were a norm rather than an exception for this study's participants. In this paper we present various frustrations online daters associate with conveying and forming impressions of potential romantic partners before meeting face-to-face. We discuss the implications of these findings for the design of online dating systems.
AB - Online dating systems are now widely used to search for romance and yet there is little research on how people use these systems to manage their impressions with potential romantic partners. To address this issue we conducted an interview study of 41 online dating users, revealing that-contrary to prior work-online daters largely do not want to intentionally deceive their online dating partners because they think such lies would quickly be discovered face-to-face. Nevertheless, bad first dates were a norm rather than an exception for this study's participants. In this paper we present various frustrations online daters associate with conveying and forming impressions of potential romantic partners before meeting face-to-face. We discuss the implications of these findings for the design of online dating systems.
KW - Impression formation
KW - Impression management
KW - Online dating
KW - Online introductions
KW - Social computing
KW - Social matching
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U2 - 10.1145/2660398.2660410
DO - 10.1145/2660398.2660410
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84911937140
T3 - Proceedings of the International ACM SIGGROUP Conference on Supporting Group Work
SP - 53
EP - 62
BT - GROUP 2014 - Proceedings of the 18th ACM International Conference on Supporting Group Work
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
T2 - 18th ACM International Conference on Supporting Group Work, GROUP 2014
Y2 - 9 November 2014 through 12 November 2014
ER -