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Name: "//Unlike other sites where you can post a picture and paragraph and then browse the profiles of other users, eHarmony does the matching for you based on 29 Dimensions of personality that are scientifically-based predictors of long-term relationship success.// " ( "Why eHarmony?." __eHarmony__. 2000-2008 eHarmony, Inc.. 17 Nov 2008 . )

"//The societal trends that drive online matchmaking in the U.S. apply in much of the world, after all: women going to work, young people migrating far from home and, perhaps most important, a newly pervasive insistence on love as an essential ingredient of marriage."// ( Masters, Coco. "We Just Clicked." __Time Magazine__ 17 January 2008 17 Nov 2008 .)

"//Of the 92 million unmarried Americans 18 and older counted by the Census last year, about 16 million have tried online dating, according to the Pew Internet & American Life Project"// ( Masters, Coco. "We Just Clicked." __Time Magazine__ 17 January 2008 17 Nov 2008 .)

//"Dating profiles are works in progress, continually edited and tweaked, fortified with newer, more flattering pictures. If they were physical documents, they would have the velvety, dogeared texture of beloved children's books or 19th-century family Bibles. Often they're made collaboratively, with friends, or at least vetted by someone of the same sex as their target audience. Many online daters have more than one profile, sometimes on the same dating site.//" ( Egan. Jennifer. "Love in the Time of No Time," __New York Times__ 23 November 2003. 17 Nov 2008  )

//"Online dating is the most lucrative form of legal paid online content. According to comScore Networks, which monitors consumer behavior on the Internet, 40 million Americans visited at least one online dating site in August -- 27 percent of all Internet users for that month."// ( Egan. Jennifer. "Love in the Time of No Time," __New York Times__ 23 November 2003. 17 Nov 2008  )

"//The probability of marrying someone whom one first encounters online falls with age. The people most likely to marry a person first encountered online are in their 20s. The people least likely to do so are more than 39 years old. The probability of marrying an online date is not associated with one’s income or education. However, the people most likely to marry someone they met online tend to live in small towns near major cities or in the suburbs of major cities. Such people compose 25% of online daters but 56% of online daters who married someone they met through an online dating service.//"

"//78% of the online survey respondents said they often use online dating services to meet someone. The second most frequently cited reason for using such services is to find someone for a long-term relationship. Fifty-eight per cent of respondents said they often use online dating services for that purpose. "//

"//On the whole, online daters are joiners. They often socialize with family and friends. They see themselves as self-confident. And they believe others see them that way."//

"//One of the enduring myths about avid computer users is that they are social isolates in the real world, locked in their basements alone for hours on end, windows tightly sealed and shuttered. Similarly, online daters are sometimes characterized as “losers” or “lonely hearts,” people who are unable to form normal social ties and enjoy normal social interaction."//

"//Members create a public identity – a name by which others may identify them and a user profile by which others may determine their level of interest in specific individuals. The user profile usually includes such information as the member’s sex, age, locale, marital status, type of relationship preferred (e.g., romantic involvement, marriage, casual sex, online sex), sexual preferences, and so forth"//

"//Moreover, the experience of conventional daters is almost certainly worse than that of online daters.// "

"//People use online dating services mainly because: − It creates the opportunity to meet people one would otherwise never meet. − It offers privacy and confidentiality. − It is more convenient than other ways of trying to meet people. "//

"//Four main social forces appear to be driving the rapid growth of online dating: − A growing proportion of the population is composed of singles, the main pool for online dating. − Career and time pressures are increasing, so people are looking for more efficient ways of meeting others for intimate relationships. − Single people are more mobile due to the demands of the job market, so it is more difficult for them to meet people for dating. − Workplace romance is on the decline due to growing sensitivity about sexual harassment//. " All of the above from: ( Brym, Dr. Robert J and Dr. Rhonda L Lenton. __Love Online: A Report on Digital Dating in Canada__. A Report of Surveys Funded by MSN.CA. Toronto: 2001.)

"//The results suggest that deception is indeed frequently observed, but that the magnitude of the deceptions is usually small. As expected, deceptions differ by gender."// (Hancock, Jeffrey T., Catalina Toma and Nicole Ellison. __The Truth About Lying in Online Dating Profiles__. Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems, San Jose CA: ACM, 2007. )

"//Both men and women prefer partners with higher incomes, but this preference is much more pronounced for women. While income preferences appear to be largely homo-geneous, there is heterogeneity in the way men and women value their partner’s education level. Generally, users prefer a partner who has a similar education level. However, while men have a particularly strong “distaste” for a better educated partner, women particularly try to avoid less educated men. "//

(Hitsch, Gunter J., Ali Hortacsu, Dan Ariely. "What Makes You Click: An Empirical Analysis of Online Dating." Jan. 2005 17 Nov 2008 )

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