Logging on to your favorite online dating site, you see multiple messages and flirty comments from an utterly stunning human being and can't believe they're actually interested in a date. After the joyous clouds clear away, chances are reality sets in and you become decidedly skeptical - that Antonio Banderas lookalike can't be after a date?
You're not alone in this disbelief, or at least wariness about the online dater's photograph. In a recent survey by CheckedProfile.com, around 80 percent of individuals who date online do not believe the picture of their potential mate is real.
Those who participated in the CheckedProfile's study cited experiences where they had been contacted by others who used a model's photograph rather than their own or looked nothing as they did online.
Site founder Ben Way explains that he set up his page and the survey because in the past, 'people have been able to hide behind online identities and claim to be someone they are not.' He thinks this should change since 'we wouldn't accept this in the real world [and] we shouldn't have to accept this online.'
You're not alone in this disbelief, or at least wariness about the online dater's photograph. In a recent survey by CheckedProfile.com, around 80 percent of individuals who date online do not believe the picture of their potential mate is real.
Those who participated in the CheckedProfile's study cited experiences where they had been contacted by others who used a model's photograph rather than their own or looked nothing as they did online.
Site founder Ben Way explains that he set up his page and the survey because in the past, 'people have been able to hide behind online identities and claim to be someone they are not.' He thinks this should change since 'we wouldn't accept this in the real world [and] we shouldn't have to accept this online.'
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