Online dating

Posted on March 31st, 2009 in PR dissertation by andrea

With the rise of social media nowadays dating can be done by your laptop. For example you can use face book in order to meet people you like and people to have a date. This happens because people don’t have time due to working hours to go out and meet people and because they use social media for their job it’s easier for them to meet people, chat with them and know the better. An example of the online dating happened with a famous football player as Scott Hesketh wrote in the Daily Star, on Sunday 29th of March. ‘FOOTIE superstar Cristiano Ronaldo scores with women over the internet by sending them pictures of his rippling muscles. The Manchester United ace has been man-marking a bevy of beauties by chatting on MSN and Face book.

He gets girls onside by sending them saucy snaps of his six packs, and then invites them to witness his ball skills in raunchy hot tub romps at his £4million Cheshire home. One of his cyber sizzlers revealed: “Ronaldo loves chatting to girls over the net. After training he goes home, gets his laptop out and logs on to MSN. “He’s always inviting me to his house for hot tub parties with him and his mates and I know he does the same with other girls. “He randomly sends pics of him and his family or him with no top on posing in his house. He loves himself to bits. “The guy is hot property in football and I can tell you he’s permanently on heat when it comes to women.” We obtained these exclusive pics from some of Ronaldo’s female fans. One shows the 24-year-old hot shot, who calls himself Cris when online, posing in his mansion with his top off. Another sees Ronaldo hugging his aunt and there is a holiday snap of the star relaxing on a speedboat with his cousin Nuno and his sister’s boyfriend Edgar. Our source said: “He just keeps sending them during conversations. You don’t have to ask, he just sends a load of random photos. “He’s a nice fella and is clearly fit but he’s very vain – and he’s got a one-track mind.” The World Player of the Year loves to hit the net both on and off the pitch. When Ron, who lives at the five-bedroom mansion in posh Alderley Edge with Nuno and his waiter, gets frisky he logs on to his laptop. One online pal said: “He used to use Face book. Cristiano Aviero was the name he used but had to keep changing it as he was getting flooded with messages. “Now he mainly uses MSN. He just comes on, says, ‘Hello it’s Cris, how are you?’ and chats about random stuff like his clothing range or his family.

“He doesn’t talk that much about footie; I think he’s more interested in chatting up girls to be honest. “I know for a fact I’m not the only one he talks to – there’s a few of my mates too. And I’m pretty sure there are hundreds of other women in his online social network. “He’s asked me out quite a few times, keeps telling me he’ll pick me up and go and watch a film in his cinema.” Ronaldo’s list of flames includes Holly oaks babe Gemma Atkinson, 24, and Portuguese stunner Nereida Gallardo, 26.

For the above example we can see that online dating is an easy way to meet people even you are Ronaldo or an ordinary person. Also you can chat with people just for friendship or gossip! Social media again offer their services to people in order to use them the way they like!




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  1.    Nicoletta said,

    on April 1st, 2009 at 7:18 am

    I think people nowadays use the net for socialising and dating as they may feel more secure behind their screens…Physical and emotional security as well…However we are all aware of the dangers someone faces when talking to strangers!But i guess all these do not apply in Ronaldo’s case :)

  2.    Nicole Krahmann said,

    on April 2nd, 2009 at 6:50 am

    Interesting post, Andrea!
    I think you are right with the fact that the web 2.0 and social media make it easy for people to get connected. But I also think that it contains a high risk for all users. Everything can be faked – your picture, your hobbies, your identity. Christiano Ronaldo just wants to have fun and I don’t think that he really wants to meet a girl. There are lots of strangers out there – some peaceful, but others not. One example of the dangers of online dating is shown in the case of a German woman, who was recently in the press. She met a men in the virtual world of the web 2.0; after many chats they decided to meet each other in the real life. At the first date he killed her. His age and everything of his personality was faked. It is a really funereal story, but it demonstrates the danger of online dating.

  3.    uchechi said,

    on April 4th, 2009 at 4:08 am

    Personally I dont see anytime wrong with it, just like nicoletta pointed out, one has to be conscious about the dangers. I have come across couples who met online and they seem very happy together.

  4.    Neha Kalra said,

    on April 5th, 2009 at 8:03 am

    Nice post! Even I don’t see any harm with it..it’s a gr8 way to know someone first without physically meeting but the only problem with it is the fake identities that people can create.

  5.    Anuj said,

    on April 9th, 2009 at 3:57 pm

    I agree with you Andrea. Today everything is so easy…thanks to ONLINE SERVICES. Just type what information you need in any search engine and you get it… online dating is the latest example..but only thing I wonder is the creditability of users..fake identities..

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