Too Much Information Can Kill Online Romance
February 15, 2007 by gayla
Filed under Relationships
A new study is claiming that the more mysterious you are in your online profile, the better chance you have of landing a date simply because it leaves less room for finding faults and excuses to be overlooked.
A new study of romantic relationships finds that as online daters got to know another person over time, their initially sweet notions turned sour.
The researchers suggest that inflated expectations can lead to major disappointments when daters meet in person. Once a flaw is spotted, the whole date is tainted.
Fantasies vanishing with knowledge is a process that hits women harder than men, said Michael Norton of Harvard Business School and one of the authors.
“On online dates, women are much, much more disappointed than men,” Norton said.
Women put more stock in the virtual dating world because they seek a soul mate, he said, whereas men are typically after a more casual relationship.
Do you agree?
Gayla, what’s the name of the book?