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    Online dating has grown significantly since the 1990s with the introduction of dating websites and mobile apps like Tinder and Bumble. These apps have become very popular, with Tinder having over 50 million users worldwide. While online dating has helped many people find relationships, it also has some drawbacks. Research shows relationships formed online often don't last and people may lie in their profiles or use the apps solely for hookups. The rise in usage of dating apps has also been linked to higher rates of HIV. This study aims to understand users' perspectives and motives on online dating apps using the Categorical Imperative Theory.

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    Ethics (Research)

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    Online dating has grown significantly since the 1990s with the introduction of dating websites and mobile apps like Tinder and Bumble. These apps have become very popular, with Tinder having over 50 million users worldwide. While online dating has helped many people find relationships, it also has some drawbacks. Research shows relationships formed online often don't last and people may lie in their profiles or use the apps solely for hookups. The rise in usage of dating apps has also been linked to higher rates of HIV. This study aims to understand users' perspectives and motives on online dating apps using the Categorical Imperative Theory.

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    Online dating has grown significantly since the 1990s with the introduction of dating websites and mobile apps like Tinder and Bumble. These apps have become very popular, with Tinder having over 50 million users worldwide. While online dating has helped many people find relationships, it also has some drawbacks. Research shows relationships formed online often don't last and people may lie in their profiles or use the apps solely for hookups. The rise in usage of dating apps has also been linked to higher rates of HIV. This study aims to understand users' perspectives and motives on online dating apps using the Categorical Imperative Theory.

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    Ethics (Research)

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    Laila Joshbeth Sandoval
    Online dating has grown significantly since the 1990s with the introduction of dating websites and mobile apps like Tinder and Bumble. These apps have become very popular, with Tinder having over 50 million users worldwide. While online dating has helped many people find relationships, it also has some drawbacks. Research shows relationships formed online often don't last and people may lie in their profiles or use the apps solely for hookups. The rise in usage of dating apps has also been linked to higher rates of HIV. This study aims to understand users' perspectives and motives on online dating apps using the Categorical Imperative Theory.

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    Introduction

    Dating has really changed since 1995 where the first online dating website . match.com

    was established. (History of Internet, n.d.). Some dating website even provided specification for

    group, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and preference. Adopting to innovation began a new way of

    dating, use of online dating application. Among the most known application were Tinder and

    Bumble. Tinder having almost about 50 million users worldwide and 1.8 million premium users.

    Bumble, the newer dating application, has about 3.5 million users that are active. It is clear that

    these two dating application have dominated the industry of dating application (Weller, 2017).

    Online dating application is still innovating and changing to meet the demands of users,

    changing the way people pursue dating. What drives the people who uses these kind of

    applications were truly captivating. Truly, online dating “has fundamentally changed the process

    of finding romance” (James, 2015, p. 1).

    In addition to this, according to OutrageMag.com (2017), half of the Filipinos have

    admitted to use online dating applications, which would rise around 56% among Millennials.

    However, 41% of the Millennials would be embarrassed to admit they have used dating

    application. Tinder with 71% popularity is the most used application by Filipinos.

    In contrast to the popularization of the use of online dating application were its negative

    effects. More often than not, relationship established from using online dating application rarely

    last and are only for short-term (Anderson, 2016). Anderson even listed 5 things that causes the

    downfall of using online dating apps:

    1. Most of the people lie on their profile in order to make themselves more likeable.
    2. Looking for real relationship is not the priority; often, people are just looking for hook-

    ups and sexual pleasure.

    3. Makes people vulnerable to online scamming and conmen.

    4. Relationships don’t (usually) last.

    5. It makes users picky and judgmental.

    Furthermore, the use of online dating application, along with lack of education is being

    correlated to the rising rate of HIV victims. Most people interviewed admitted to using dating

    applications such as Tinder, Grindr, Bumble, etc. Even though the use of online dating

    application allowed users to meet new people online, it also made them vulnerable to the risk of

    being infected, especially those who use the dating application for sexual pleasures and

    activities.

    In summary, although online dating application made it easier for users to meet people

    and look for possible relationship partner online, it also endangers people using it. These

    applications also allows the users, themselves, to take advantage of the application. Thus, the

    researchers wanted to study and analyze the perspectives and motives of online dating

    application users with the use of Categorical Imperative Theory. These were the questions the

    researchers aimed to answer:

    1. What are the perspectives of the respondents?

    2. What are the motives of the respondents?

    3. What are the analyzations of the respondents' perspectives and motives with the

    use of Categorical Imperative Theory?

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