Talk:Motivation and emotion/Book/2014/Internet relationships and motivation

Comment
Hi Chamou A short social contribution to your chapter.

It's probably worth checking out what are (allegedly) the top Australian dating sites, provided you are looking at an Australian angle for your chapter, of course. I would also do some 'action research' to check out the wants/desires/dreams in the profiles of people registered on the different sites. A casual look makes them seem all fairly formulaic, but you might find some patterns emerging if you look at a few. It's probably a thing that changes with age/demographic as well, so the motivations for one group eg. 21 year olds, may be different to those in their 60's. But maybe it's just that we're all looking for leerve! Good luck with it.

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Hey! I just came across your page, and thought that we might be able to benefit from each other! I'm currently editing the chapter "Social media motivation - What motivates social media usage?" one of my headings is for social connection, which seems relevant to this chapter. Depending on what direction you want for your page, i've found that factors that influence social media use could be things like personality, and in your chapter context of needing a relationship - someone with high Neuroticism traits have shown high belongingness needs and may pursue to meet these needs through these internet relationship sites. Good work so far! The graph looks great on the page and provides an easy visual for the reader.--Can Rogerthat (discuss • contribs) 22:59, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

feedback
hey, I like your headings so far. Some ideas to get you thinking a bit further - perhaps include some discussion on being single and meeting people, and perhaps a bit of history of how people interacted socially/romantically in the past compared to the different ways people meet in modern day society. Also looking at social isolation with the new age of the internet would be interesting, and maybe the types of people that are using the internet for dating (which would be very broad from my first hand knowledge) and what this says about society today. Goodluck!

User:Smelle24 20:54, 16 October 2014 (UTC)

thoughts
Hi, I think that this is a really interesting topic to be exploring. The world relies on the internet and technology for so much now and it think that it is important to explore how and why dating has found its way to the internet and what motivates people to go to the internet to find life partners friends and hook ups. I think it would also be worth looking at the different mobile applications that are out that center more around 'hooking up' with people like tinder and grindr. cant wait to read the finished chapter good luck :) K.kauhanen (discuss • contribs)

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Comments about revisions
Subsequent revisions have been made, with comments as follows: -- Jtneill - Talk - c 00:42, 17 December 2014 (UTC)
 * 1) Some interwiki links have been added as external links; these should be changed to internal links
 * 2) Reeve (2009) is used as a reference; instead use primary, peer-reviewed sources
 * 3) Heading levels have not been corrected
 * 4) Overview has been expanded (good)
 * 5) The chapter still uses Maslow's hierarchy of needs as the motivational framework, but the selection of this theoretical model and the relationship between this model and internet dating motivations is not well justified and does not appear to have been developed through cited theory and research.
 * 6) Material about two other theories has been slightly expanded.
 * 7) More detailed captions have been added to images but APA style is not used.
 * 8) New, grammatically incorrect material has been added (e.g., "This increases communication in an online relationship, this is supported by Carr and Walther’s (2014) non-verbal cues." and "Individual's online are encourages to interact with non-verbal cues, such as self-disclosure and checklists to have a more positive outcome with online dating.")
 * 9) Referencing has been improved, however some  tags were removed without any other changes (such as providing a citation) (e.g., "As this is an anonymous environment, there is little to no judgement involved when turning down an individual, as there would if being done it person" and "Many online members have reported to have met partners, made friendships, and create support networks for hobbies such as sports.")

These minor-moderate changes were reviewed: -- Jtneill - Talk - c 07:46, 26 February 2015 (UTC)
 * 1) Wikipedia links were changed to internal links
 * 2) Brief summary of Tay & Diener (2011) added - research
 * 3) Unreferenced mention of Seligman to well-being and life satisfaction - doesn't appear to be directly related to the topic (internet relationships and motivation)
 * 4) A one sentence paragraph about William Glasser (1998) has been added - it isn't clear how this relates to internet relationships and motivation
 * 5) New paragraph added with research/theory about disclosure of personal information.