#realitydating

The purpose of a dating site is for people to meet new friends or lovers before having to meet face to face. It is a tool used to enable interactions and connections between human beings virtual selves, before meeting their actual selves.  A dating site is a virtual location that houses members profiles; the answers to questions and pictures that they’ve chosen to represent themselves. 

Within the virtual location of OkCupid, users click, like or message _vanessa_jane as an imagined reality. Meaning that based on the photo posted on her profile, the virtual location, the user can begin to imagine what Vanessa might be like in real life. This virtual location is a platform that contains her information and image that’s used to entice men to react and reach out the same way a man might pick up on a woman at a bar but instead of seeing what she orders, they read about the books she likes or her goals in life. Both the answers to the questions and pictures become an imagined reality that a  man has of a woman he’s never met.