1. Extremes of Online Interpersonal Relationships Brian Coleman Angela Lutheran April 19 2012

2. Survey Design Taken from Pew Internet surveys – Princeton University Maximal 55 questions* Question Style – Yes or no – Likert scale – Dimensional analysis

3. Survey Participants Not Compensated Anonymous honesty

4. Race By # out of 91 Total Participants

5. Gender Orientation Demographics

6. Extremes via Survey Adult Friend Finder OkCupidEHarmony

7. Older = more likely to meet & more particular Mcintosh, Locker, Briley, Ryan, and Scott (2011) Online = trust & intimacy higher Offline = lower Ross M. (2005) Casual = more sexual acts Romantic = less sexual acts Bauermeister, Santana, Johns, & Pingel (2010) Hypothesis Participants differ behaviorally by demographics and dating site preference

8. Linking Research & our Participants YOUNGOLDER Actively seeking Highly selectiveDivorcedWill TravelNo RushCasual “Holds more weight with age”

9. Other Interesting Outlier Sexual Orientation & Exploration – Male – Prefers Men – Is married – Identifies as heterosexual – Somewhat agreed that some people who use online dating lie about whether they are married

10. Correlation between Responses? 50% 13/26 total participants “Online dating is a good way to meet people” “Most people can be trusted” Ross M. (2005) found that even TRUST and INTIMACY are heightened when communicating online versus face to face.

11. Characteristics of the Sex Extreme Never Married Looking for a partner Active Online User Never been in a long term relationship with Online partner (2 of 3) Adult Friend Finder.com

12. Consistent with Other Researchers Casual Seeker Trends gathered by other researchers Characteristics of those who use AdultFriendFinder VS. Romantic seeker as examined in Bauermeister, Leslie-Santana, Johns, & Pingel’s (2010)

13. Limitations 3 of 91 is a small sample size Lacks other “strictly sex” oriented websites Implications for Further Research 1 Participant was a Bisexual Female Bisexuality as correlated with tendency to use “strictly sex” websites in women

14. Strengths of Survey Reliability via Multiple Questions Length Based on Other Surveys Range of Demographics Opinions from Nonusers Dimensional Analysis

15. Limitations of Survey 1. Large Sample Size 2. Internal Validity for Constructs 3. Longitudinal comparison 4. Further information from outliers LACKS:

16. Conclusion Our survey addressed not only extremes of online interpersonal relationships But also, contained outliers that have been backed by psychological literature As with every experiment, this study can be replicated and improved to produce stronger results and to gain new insight