ABSTRACT
Internet dating is all about framing, constructing oneself for the opposite (or same) sex (see Goff man 1974). One frames by selecting photos of oneself carefully, to best advantage. One is in control of the information about oneself that one shares. Th ere is not complete plasticity; the 60-year-old cannot readily lose 40 years of wrinkle lines. But the 45-year-old can easily become 40, and the portly person can become “athletic,” as the terminology goes. And one’s interests can be as varied and as altruistic as one wants.
