eHarmony Question: ‘If you were taken by your date to a party where you knew no one, how would you respond?’

eHarmony Possible Answers:
- stay close to my date, letting him/her introduce me
- find a spot at the back bar and relax alone, letting him/her work the room
- strike out on my own, introducing myself and making friends
- I would ask my partner if I could skip this particular event
- (your own answer)

So, from that I would assume that this aspect is very important for most women. My guess is they’re hoping for response ‘C’ which is that their man would have no problem introducing himself to others at a party instead of clinging to his date. Your thoughts on this eHarmony question?

As expected, extroverts went for “richer” forms of communication like phone or instant messaging, which provide the immediate back and forth that psychologists dub “synchronicity.” So did amiable people, and those who were adventurous. Introverts and the easily stressed preferred e-mail — the lowest on the richness scale — because it lets them control what they say and when they say it. So did the cautious. E-mail “slows communication down by a factor of five,” Dunaetz says. “What you can learn in one day face to face will take five days via e-mail.”

So, while email may be preferred by some, it slows down the process of getting to know someone. What does this say about online dating, where most first communication is done via email messages? Does this lend itself to dating site features like voice communication services that hide your real phone number, web cam communication, virtual-avatar dating, etc?