This study was conducted to investigate the "self presentation strategies" of online daters, and how they present themselves in order to find a romantic partner. I think this is a very interesting study, when you are portraying yourself online, are you being honest about the real you that is trying to find a romantic partner. The findings are that the participants where in fact honest about who they were online.
Important to note, there are a lot of limitations on this study, and it sends up a red flag. These are again participants that choose to be apart of the study. They are all from a specific region, and the site that they used to study from is not like most dating sites today. You look through and find someone instead of being matched with "most compatible" daters.
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Oh if you couldn't find the article, or I could have possibly read the wrong one because there are two that Ellison and Gibbs wrote in 2006, Either way here is the link
http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol11/issue2/ellison.html
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