Single Seniors, Lying Daters and A New Online Guide For Couples
With about 85 million baby boomers in North America and approximately 30 percent of them single, there’s a lot of prime-age dating going on. To help them out, SeniorPeopleMeet.com, a popular online dating site for seniors has just launched SeniorPeopleMeet.com Magazine . Why do single seniors need their own dating magazine? “Today’s senior singles may hope to meet someone special to share favorite activities like golf or tennis, as a travel companion or even as a new romantic partner or spouse,” says Ron Worthy, Vice President, People Media, the company behind the site and magazine. “We recognized the need to provide informative and entertaining content tailored specifically to these varied goals and motivations, and SeniorPeopleMeet.com Magazine has been crafted to do just that.” *** Single seniors aren’t the only ones getting a new online magazine devoted entirely to them. Twodaymag.com is a new online magazine for couples. Rather than gearing content toward men or women specifically, twodaymag.com offers content that couples can read together including interesting articles on topics such as how to balance the financial power in a relationship, how to plan an inexpensive date and how to keep a relationship fresh. *** Turns out online daters lie just as much as people who meet face-to-face according to new research out of the University of Kansas . Jeffrey Hall, assistant professor of communication studies at the University, surveyed more than 5,000 participants from a national Internet matchmaking service to determine what kinds of people are most likely to lie during the online dating process. He asked them how likely they were to lie about topics such as assets, relationship goals, personal interests, personal attributes, past relationships, age and weight. Those most likely to lie during online dating experiences are “high self-monitors” — people who have an acute sense of what people like and control their behavior to achieve social ends. Their actions are not necessarily manipulative, Hall said, but rather reflect a desire to be liked and to fit in. Hall’s research was published in the February issue of the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships. The journal also produced a podcast with Hall, In the study, men admitted to lying more overall, but women were most likely to lie about their weight. Because online daters hope to meet face-to-face eventually, the amount of lying is quite small, Hall said. “Online daters shouldn’t be concerned that most people are presenting a false impression of themselves,” Hall said. “What influences face-to-face dating influences the online world, too.”
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