Research related to online dating underscores the importance of conscious digital sharing
There’s an old joke that “On the internet, nobody knows you’re a dog.” It’s originally from a 1993 cartoon in The New Yorker and while the internet looks a lot different from how it looked back then, it’s just as relevant in 2021: With a couple of tricks, you can be anyone online. And your dates can as well.
That’s probably why many people now choose to do a little online research before meeting up with a date in person. To just how many people are searching — particularly in the age of pandemic dating, when bars and other ways to meet in-person aren’t an option — Avast conducted a global survey that included 15,000 people from Argentina, Australia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Indonesia, Japan, Mexico, Russia, Spain, and the UK.
The survey found that, globally, half of all daters who use online dating apps or websites have searched for someone they met on a dating app. Of this group, 30 percent found something objectionable or didn’t find anything at all and decided not to meet up.
The reason behind daters’ online sleuthing varied, from wanting to learn more about their match (60%), verifying the person was actually real (50%), fact-checking what their match told them about themselves (34%), and wanting to see how their potential date interacted on social media (26%).
“Searching or not searching a person ahead of a date is a personal decision, as long as it is being done with respect for som ..
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