The issue that I would like to propose for my issues paper is "Online Dating." Some issues that I feel have come about from on dating sites would be: the quality of relationships, people exaggerating and lying about info, dangers of online dating, the statistics for marriage and divorce, lack of face to face interactions, and how it isolates people. As you can probably tell from all the issues I put down, my initial stances of online dating sites is that they create artificial love if anything, and that they are overall not a good thing. The Research questions that I will be using will be: What is the quality of realationships produced by online dating sites? What are the faults with online dating? What are the dangers with online dating? How our people effected when they use online dating sites?
I have done a little research on my topic thus far, and the information that I have gotten so far has been somewhat helpful. In online dating sites people put information about themselves and then get matched to someone like themselves, but people tend to exaggerate qualities about themselves. It is more common for people to lie about things to get that girls or guy. When putting a picture of themselves online people tend to put more flattering pictures of themselves, which can be very misleading. More will say and ask to do bad things on online dating sites. There is just so much more issues with online dating sites, but those were few things that I was able to find. I haven't really been affected by this topic personally. To say the truth I was watching tv and one of those eHarmony commercials went on. I got very annoyed by this commercial and thought to myself "There is no way that online dating sites can be good." Here I am now though, proposing this topic. I guess you could say I have been affected by this topic because the commercials annoy me.
I think that this'll be an interesting topic to write about. Good choice. And it cracks me up that you chose it because of annoying commercials. Ha!
ReplyDeleteOkay, I can see this turning into a good argument. You will be up against some pretty big counterarguments, though, and you'll have to keep them in mind as you do research. You will have to take into consideration the number of online dating "success stories," and you will have to come up with some sort of solution that can fix the current issue. Your topic is pretty broad, as of right now, so you might want to try and focus on just one aspect of online dating that is harmful/should be changed. Your research should help you funnel your argument down to a more narrow frame.
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