research...

This paper is a lot harder than I had anticipated. I tried to make the paper easy to understand and read without getting way too personal. (in super great detail, towards the end of my paper), but detailed enough so that the reader had a vivid picture of what was / is taking place.

The easy part was when I am explaining my own self and Ben - experience. I am living it, and so it's easy to tell my own story to others. Do they grasp what I am saying? I hope so.

I wrote this paper the best that I could, with me being as comfortable with it as possible, while trying to understand and follow all of the guidelines. Writing papers is not an easy thing for me to do by far. So, this has been an ultimate challenge for me this summer. Those who have read it so far, liked it and I feel that it's a good paper.

I had trouble w/my research only because it seemed that a lot of what is offered is repeated by other sources. It seems that the statistics are more than similar, and they don't really give more information from the next, of what I had been searching for.

Dateline is a good example, and fit well into my paper. I watch that show frequently, and it has really good advice. Good advice towards the negatives of internet useage/dating though vs. all positive aspects of it. I think that it's a good source for "PARENTS" to watch, to open their eyes of what could happen to their children, and from that they could use it to teach and educate their kids of the dangers of predators.

All in all, I liked this topic that i had chosen, due to the fact that I can personally relate to what was researched, and I learned a few things from it.
1. More people that I talked to /all interviewed have positive outlooks/views, yet are aware of the negative(s)
2. Tips - good / bad were offered throughout the webpages searched, and I took a few into consideration. ie: what to do / what not to do (then again, most of us would just do what we are going to do in the first place, regardless of what has to be offered.

My main focus was to inform my reader(s) that, if you're aware, cautious and responsible then online dating isn't a bad thing.
thesis: When used with caution and responsibility, online dating can be benefitial. If a person is of adequate age and is aware of possible dangers then tehre is no reason to disregard online dating as another form of dating communication.