Internet Dating

ISBN-13: 9783639133554 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 192 str.

Mary Weber-Young

Opis

Internet dating has inserted itself into mainstream culture. It is convenient, widely accessible, and reasonably easy, even for the somewhat less computer adept. Yet despite its widespread appeal, it has a relatively low success rate. This study examines not only why people use the internet, but how various types of people begin their exploration with inherent assumptions of the outcomes. Moreover, certain character types may be a predictor of those outcomes. Using the narrative structure of Michael Endes "Never Ending Story, this studys author demonstrates how Internet dating participants all enter the process with the same hopeful outcome. However, participants expectations and use of the tool itself ultimately impacts the degree of success. Similar to Bastian the boy in Endes novel, Internet daters become part of the story they create and have to make choices along their path. Each has to choose deliberately to either bring their romantic hopes back into the non-virtual world or get lost in the fantasy of cyberspace.

O autorze

Mary Weber-Young has maintained a private psychotherapy practice
since 1991, working with both adolescents and adults. Dr. Young
lives in St. Louis Missouri with her husband and two sons.