Online Dating

Online Dating: Is it Trustworthy?
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Online dating has exploded in popularity over the past decade. According to a survey by PEW, about one in four teens with dating experience had dated or hooked up with someone they met online (Pew Research Center, 2015). Despite this large chunk, most teens expressed worries or doubts about online dating. Their chief concern with the platform was trustworthiness (Pew Research Center, 2015). Despite this concern, online dating is likely here to stay and will probably only increase in popularity. This research proposal seeks to examine the phenomenon specifically focusing on whether, and to what extent, trustworthiness can be maintained. This proposal shall explain why this is a topic important to the field of Communications. It shall then explain why the author of this paper is pursuing this topic as well. Finally, this paper shall outline several research questions that this paper will seek to answer. This is an important topic for the field of Communications, and this paper will ultimately explain exactly why and how Communications Scholars should examine it.
The field of Communications focuses on exactly what its name implies: how humans communicate with each other. It is distinct from other fields such as psychology that investigate thought processes or sociology that investigates how large groups of humans behave. While both aforementioned fields could potentially illuminate various questions regard…