Name: Paulo Christian A. Ortiz
Section: BSA-1A
Type of Speech: Informative
Speech Purpose: To inform my audience that internet dating brings a lot of dangers.
According to John Foster, “When all sounds too good to be true- it probably is not true”. So, while there are many scam artists on the internet, there are ten times more genuine people there as well. The content of my speech is all about the disadvantages of internet dating. Let me bring all of you exploring a new world of cyber-dating and how internet dating changes your life or worst, your personality.
Now, let me tell you why you should not enroll yourself in a cyber-dating world, the internet dating by the first disadvantage. First, it can be addictive. Some people, especially teenage are the majority that has been involved in internet dating end up with unhealthy relationship and poor time management in their studies. Since many online daters have profiles in more than one site, this means they’re getting responses from all over the place and from many different groups and types of people. Even though you already found someone special, you may still be online, looking for other people because it is so interesting to get the attention from the whole world and it is so addictive. So, in essence, it does something for your ego that is very false.
We have seen how internet dating can be so addictive and now let’s take a look how it can also rise almost all fake and false profile. People may give you a photograph that is ten years old when they take the best photograph that they ever have or a touched up photograph which is not really them. Clear signs that the photo may be fake are strange backgrounds that might indicate a stock image, photos that appear professionally taken and photos that seem old rather than current. Profiles can be false like changing their names, age, and their gender to make themselves sound as appealing to others and take it too