1. Online Dating: Is it
better?
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“An extraordinary number of people spend an extraordinary amount of time
online connecting with other people.”
- Hara Estroff Marano, Cyberspace: Love Online

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- Reuters, Herald News, PC World, Washington Post

4. • Love?
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20 millionUse eHarmony
Reuters, Herald News, PC World, Washington Post
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Match.com has
15million
members!
-Reuters, Herald News,
PC World, Washington Post

6. 52.4% of participants are men.
47.6% of participants are women.
- Reuters, Herald News, PC World, Washington Post

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-Reuters, Herald News, PC World, Washington Post

8. How do you know which
online dating site is right for
you?
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“Match.com and E-Harmony are for people who are looking to get hitched…”
“… J-Date is the site you sign up for to appease your Bubbe.”
-Stephanie Georgopolis,
Dating online: How do you choose which site is for you?

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Do Relation ships Last
Longer when the couple
meets online?

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The average length
of a relationship
that begins from
and online dating
site is 18.5 months.
The average length
of a relationship
that did not begin
on an online dating
site is 42 months.
-Reuters, Herald News, PC World, Washington Post

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‘Historically,
commitment has
been the goal. You
could say online
dating is simply
changing people’s
ideas about whether
commitment is
desirable.’
- Greg Blatt, How online dating is killing commitment: Millions of women think
love is just a click away. But easy-come, easy-go internet romance can ruin
your chance of a lasting relationship

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“While cyber relationships can be more sincere and
open than offline relationships, they also leave a great
deal of room for deception.”
- Hara Estroff Marano

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do you know what’s real?
“80% of online daters lie about their
height, weight or age.
The older you are, though, the less
likely you are to fib.”
- University of Wisconsin-Madison
and Cornell University
“50% were untruthful about their
heights in their online profiles.”
- University of Wisconsin-Madison and
Cornell University
“Nearly one-third of men in
the BeautifulPeople.com
study admitted to lying about
their age, compared to just
17% of women.”
– Women's Day
“42% of men in the BeautifulPeople.com survey
admitted to lying about some aspect of their
job.” - Women’s Day
“Photographs were identified as the single
most deceptive element of the person’s
profile.” - Dr. Toma, Women’s Day
HOW,

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"Online dating is great. It allows people access to potential partners,
they otherwise would not have."
- Eli J. Finkel, Ph.D.

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Now that love is just one click away,
Is it better than dating the old fashioned way?

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“Wheaton College media ecologist Read Schuchardt
is concerned about the implicit messages that
dating sites send, especially those like eHarmony
that claim to find your “ideal match.” These sites
feed the illusion, Schuchardt said, “that the perfect
one is ‘out there’ and all you have to do is find them
through this fine-toothed comb called online dating.
The reality is just the opposite — no matter who
you find, it will take a lifetime of sacrifice and
accommodation to learn how to tolerate living with
the other while they attempt to learn how to
tolerate living with you.”
- Read Mercer Schuchardt,
Online dating has gone mainstream – is that a good thing?

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The researchers say, “one of the weaknesses of online dating is an over reliance on ‘profiles,’
Although most dating websites feature photos and detailed, searchable profiles covering everything
from personality traits to likes and dislikes, this information isn't necessarily useful in identifying a partner.”
-Finkel and his coauthors, Psychologists highlight pitfalls of online dating

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“Some services, such as eHarmony and PerfectMatch.com,
claim to minimize the guesswork involved in online dating
by using mathematical algorithms to match couples
according to various traits…”
"Not only is there no scientific
evidence, despite the claims, but my team
of co-authors have become pessimistic that
there could ever be in principle an algorithm
that could match people well based on the
approaches these sites take.”
- Finkle: Psychologists highlight pitfalls of
online dating
-Psychologists highlight pitfalls of online dating

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