| Online personals and internet dating are becoming | | | | crowded room of one's own insular demographic. |
| popular ways for singles to meet. They provide a | | | | With the relative ease of accessing online dating |
| sure-fire way to meet and get to know people from | | | | sites, it's simple to continually go back and look for |
| all parts of the world. | | | | someone new. |
| Online dating enables users who are looking for | | | | Considering online dating game is not hard to do. In |
| romance to post their profiles for everyone to see. | | | | fact, 26% of all Internet users 39 million Americans |
| At the same, online personals and internet dating | | | | visited a personals Web site in December, 2003, |
| offer a huge opportunity for your best partner to | | | | according to the Web measurement firm comScore |
| access the data. | | | | Media Metrix. |
| It is no wonder why Americans have fallen hard for | | | | Online dating is but a natural extension of where we |
| the online dating scene. While other Internet | | | | are at this point in time. Everybody owns computers. |
| businesses are having a hard time, dating sites are | | | | Everybody wants to fall in love. The two inevitably |
| savoring a full-throttle success. Recently, some | | | | merged. There is not one particular demographic on |
| subscriptions hit 1,000,000, and the online-dating | | | | who uses online dating. This is because it can be |
| industry as a whole generated more than $70 million | | | | done in the privacy of your own home and all it |
| in the first three months of this year. By the end of | | | | takes is your time to read about someone and get |
| 2007, more than 20 million Americans will have visited | | | | to know them by e-mail and phone before you ever |
| a dating Web site. | | | | go out. |
| Because potential dates in internet dating often | | | | It's not the job of online dating to help me find the |
| engage in intimate e-mail before meeting, the first | | | | woman of my dreams. It's the job of online personals |
| date is not blind. But the very ease and anonymity of | | | | and internet dating to introduce me to people. |
| the experience also encourages social | | | | Whether two people are meant to be together for |
| experimentation. This is a particular benefit for | | | | the next 50 years, that's compatibility, luck, and |
| women, for whom flirtation with strangers has | | | | timing. With online personals and internet dating, men |
| always carried greater risk. For both men and | | | | oftentimes do more initiating contact. They write a |
| women, online personals and internet dating may | | | | number of short generic letters to as many women |
| allow singles to make contact with dates outside their | | | | as they can. Women on the other hand do not |
| social circles. Internet dating goes beyond the | | | | initiate contact as much and prefer to receive replies. |