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Part of the appeal of these sites is that, divorced from faceto-face indicators of attraction, both parties are free to
present themselves in an idealized manner. Online dating
offers a way to find potential partners you wouldnt
ordinarily meet, freer of context than in real life. Further,
the online interaction is always between two individuals. In
other words, while profiles are viewable by many, messages
or chats are only sent from one person to another, and are
not viewable by any other members of the site. This affords
a privacy not easily experienced in real world contexts,
where friends, family, acquaintances, and even strangers in
public are often privy to the details of romantic encounters,
whether firsthand or through the grapevine.
This pairwise interaction between two individuals means
that dating websites are perhaps unique among socially
oriented websites: unlike in other, more open, online
communities, in which many people can see each others
posts, interaction on dating sites is viewable only by the
two involved parties. Further, even visibility of profiles
may be restricted. For example, in heterosexual dating
dynamics, absent putting forth effort to use the site in an
unintended way, a user will only see profiles of the opposite
genderinformation that may not necessarily help that user
understand how to better present his or her own profile on
the site. This lack of visibility raises a number of questions:
how are users learning to use these sites, and making the
transition to experts? Are there norms that develop on
particular sites, despite the fact that users cannot see a wide
cross-section of behavior there? What impact does this lack
of visibility have on participation on these sites?
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Users in our observation reported manipulating the locationbased features of Tinder. Members spoke of spoofing their
location to both find users slightly outside of their
maximum area, and to see if they would be considered as
attractive in other locations.
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