So... this isn't really about gaming, but as games are opening the gates to [more] social environments (MMOs mostly, but also all those communities built around gaming), and the line separating our real life identity with our virtual ego is becoming thinner, the old statement "there're no girls in the Internet" is turning obsolete. The Internet is full of people, and yeah, it's possible to find 70 year old grannies playing World of Warcraft. Asia Carrera used to play Unreal Tournament, and even had her own server.
For many, Internet has become the perfect tool to socialize, helping them find people with common interests, and, in not so rare cases, even love. There are loads of dating services around, even gamer oriented (as if gamers had special needs).
Still, while people often have no problem in giving quite some personal details about themselves that would allow anyone to even pinpoint them in a map at any given hour, it's funny to see how many portray themselves in peculiar ways when it comes to certain specific aspects of their appearance/life in general. Even if the lie would be blatantly noticeable in a real life meeting; this is, obviously lying and saying you're 1'85 instead of 1'67 would probably make your virtual identity a tad more desirable. But what for? You could think "this is nonsense". Well, it's not that obvious most of the times, but apparently people are used to give themselves 2 extra inches when explaining how tall they are. Sizes of other bodyparts don't seem to be relevant in the study I'm referring to, although I'm pretty sure the exact same rule applies. I mean, two inches more, two inches less...
For many, Internet has become the perfect tool to socialize, helping them find people with common interests, and, in not so rare cases, even love. There are loads of dating services around, even gamer oriented (as if gamers had special needs).
Still, while people often have no problem in giving quite some personal details about themselves that would allow anyone to even pinpoint them in a map at any given hour, it's funny to see how many portray themselves in peculiar ways when it comes to certain specific aspects of their appearance/life in general. Even if the lie would be blatantly noticeable in a real life meeting; this is, obviously lying and saying you're 1'85 instead of 1'67 would probably make your virtual identity a tad more desirable. But what for? You could think "this is nonsense". Well, it's not that obvious most of the times, but apparently people are used to give themselves 2 extra inches when explaining how tall they are. Sizes of other bodyparts don't seem to be relevant in the study I'm referring to, although I'm pretty sure the exact same rule applies. I mean, two inches more, two inches less...
If you want to read about the whole study (made on OkCupid), you can do it in Gizmodo:
>> Gizmodo - The big lies people tell in online dating
Really worth giving it a look.
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