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| Oct 31, 2019 at 14:45 | comment | added | JBentley | @Thomas You are looking at just one aspect which is that someone finds the profile, that person is a student, and that person tells other students. By unlikely I am referring to the total probability. The chance of the student finding the profile in the first place is not overly high (given that there are hundreds of dating sites, and their search criteria will be unlikely to overlap even if they are on the same site). Sure, it can happen, but the rest of my post deals with that. | |
| Oct 31, 2019 at 14:44 | comment | added | Thomas | I mean the part "this scenario is fairly unlikely anyway". It is not. | |
| Oct 31, 2019 at 14:42 | comment | added | JBentley | @Thomas I'm not sure which part you are saying is untrue. I stand by the statement I made in no. 3 that "there isn't anything wrong with a human being wanting to socialize" and that if you are still concerned then you can "keep the profile content appropriate to minimize any possible embarrassment". I'm not sure how that makes it sound like I live in an ivory tower. There's also no need to be insulting if you disagree with my post. | |
| Oct 30, 2019 at 20:25 | comment | added | Thomas | Your argument in 3 is untrue (it sounds like you live in an ivory tower). Most students would tell each other when they find their profs in unexpected places (or post this online), just as it is often in CHeap newspapers when promiment people appear in unexpected places. | |
| Jul 31, 2017 at 11:42 | comment | added | Agent_L | There is nothing inherently wrong with dating app and there is nothing wrong in being identifiable. You should start with assumption you will be identified sooner or later, because it's inevitable. The only issue one should care about is what he/she writes in the app. | |
| Jul 30, 2017 at 20:02 | comment | added | JBentley | @problemofficer The flaw in your argument becomes obvious with, "they are expected to show a higher degree of maturity". Having a dating profile is not a sign of immaturity. Having an immature dating profile is a sign of immaturity. | |
| Jul 30, 2017 at 20:00 | comment | added | JBentley | @problemofficer I dealt with the "message me if you want to smash!" part in the last sentence of point 3. A well written and respectable dating profile is nothing to be ashamed of. That might be the subject of another question, but it becomes relevant to this if you're going to claim that professors should be held to higher standards when it comes to dating in general (since the OP has removed dating students from this question). I do not accept that as a valid starting point. Why should professors be expected not to socialize outside of work in the same ways as anyone else? | |
| Jul 30, 2017 at 18:43 | comment | added | problemofficer - n.f. Monica | Professors of a university are held to higher standards than undergraduates. They are expected to show a higher degree of maturity. I don't think point 2 is therefore applicable. "Message me if you want to smash!" on a Tinder profile of a freshman would barely interest anyone but found on a profile of your lecturer together with his face would instantly be shared among all students. I would definitely find it shareworthy. Whether you should be ashamed about it is another question that was already answered. | |
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| Jul 30, 2017 at 17:22 | history | answered | JBentley | CC BY-SA 3.0 |