The year is 2015 and professional matchmakers stand a service of the past. The stigma surrounding online dating is all but eradicated. Friends, family, and colleagues all date online. An estimated over 40 million people in the United States have tried online dating. Websites vary from free sites comparable to Plenty of Fish to subscription based sites similar to OkCupid. The free sites get their primary revenue through advertisements on the website itself and also provide a premium service for those interested. By collecting money from the adverts the free sites can provide similar services as a subscription based website for free. Whereas, a subscription based website excludes key features to encourage you to pay for their services.
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By limiting free features these websites encourage many users to purchase a subscription to their services. Not to mention, subscriptions last until you cancel them so if you forget to cancel the subscription and don’t use the service you pay for services you aren’t using. EHarmony has subscription options that cost upwards of 59.99 a month. EHarmony’s fees for their dating service can surpass $700 a year! EHarmony’s advice is to stick with it for several months to improve you odds of finding a soul mate. EHarmony’s advice sounds all too self-serving - by continuing to try to find your soul mate you pay for a premium account, increasing EHarmony’s revenue. A more mid-range dating site like Match can cost up to $41.99 a month, or over $500 a year. Assuming somebody wants to be on both websites, they could be paying well over $1200 a year for online services. You could buy a functional 4 cylinder car or a brand new 50” TV for the cost of a year dating online. Sure, some people have a thousand dollars to spend for potential love, but wouldn’t be just as likely to find somebody that shares your interests while participating in said interests? If you enjoy hiking, there are websites like meetup.com, where you can go hiking with people from the site for free. The likelihood you meet your soul mate on the dating website is comparable to a site designed to …show more content…
By fabricating online identities cat fishers can trick people into emotional or romantic relationships. For example, you meet somebody you connect with on an emotional level and they won’t meet up with you. After a plethora of excuses to avoid meeting up, you do more research into the person you have been talking to discovering they aren’t who they say they are. They are using photos that are of some model from another state that doesn’t share their name. Before this moment you found yourself infatuated with them. Love is best when it is reciprocated, but it doesn’t have to be reciprocated to exist. Your deep connection was snapped by this new knowledge of their deceit because this individual you connected with cat fished you. They made you believe they were somebody else to win your favor. Deceiving, lying, and luring you into believing something that doesn’t exist. A person who was cat fished may feel shocked, embarrassed, depressed, or hurt emotionally. You may also encounter ID theft while dating online. The person you are speaking to could ask questions such as what was the name of your childhood pet to probe for answers regarding security questions. Using this information they can steal credit cards or worst case your social security number. To dispute and recover stolen identifiers such as a social security number would certainly raise your stress levels. Thus, causing a substantial increase in emotional
However, …show more content…
By limiting free features these websites encourage many users to purchase a subscription to their services. Not to mention, subscriptions last until you cancel them so if you forget to cancel the subscription and don’t use the service you pay for services you aren’t using. EHarmony has subscription options that cost upwards of 59.99 a month. EHarmony’s fees for their dating service can surpass $700 a year! EHarmony’s advice is to stick with it for several months to improve you odds of finding a soul mate. EHarmony’s advice sounds all too self-serving - by continuing to try to find your soul mate you pay for a premium account, increasing EHarmony’s revenue. A more mid-range dating site like Match can cost up to $41.99 a month, or over $500 a year. Assuming somebody wants to be on both websites, they could be paying well over $1200 a year for online services. You could buy a functional 4 cylinder car or a brand new 50” TV for the cost of a year dating online. Sure, some people have a thousand dollars to spend for potential love, but wouldn’t be just as likely to find somebody that shares your interests while participating in said interests? If you enjoy hiking, there are websites like meetup.com, where you can go hiking with people from the site for free. The likelihood you meet your soul mate on the dating website is comparable to a site designed to …show more content…
By fabricating online identities cat fishers can trick people into emotional or romantic relationships. For example, you meet somebody you connect with on an emotional level and they won’t meet up with you. After a plethora of excuses to avoid meeting up, you do more research into the person you have been talking to discovering they aren’t who they say they are. They are using photos that are of some model from another state that doesn’t share their name. Before this moment you found yourself infatuated with them. Love is best when it is reciprocated, but it doesn’t have to be reciprocated to exist. Your deep connection was snapped by this new knowledge of their deceit because this individual you connected with cat fished you. They made you believe they were somebody else to win your favor. Deceiving, lying, and luring you into believing something that doesn’t exist. A person who was cat fished may feel shocked, embarrassed, depressed, or hurt emotionally. You may also encounter ID theft while dating online. The person you are speaking to could ask questions such as what was the name of your childhood pet to probe for answers regarding security questions. Using this information they can steal credit cards or worst case your social security number. To dispute and recover stolen identifiers such as a social security number would certainly raise your stress levels. Thus, causing a substantial increase in emotional