Are social networking sites taking over?
Social networking sites are the rage for sure. Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and their derivatives are spouting like mushrooms. I just wrote a couple of entries ago about Zoosk and MyTweetheart. What do you think?
Facebook and MySpace are ‘most popular places to find love’
Social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace and Friends Reunited have taken over from pubs and nightclubs as the most popular place to find love, it has emerged.
Three quarters of Brits believe there are fewer stigmas attached to meeting a love-match via Facebook, Friends Reunited or Bebo than normal internet dating websites like match.com
One in four British people are dating – or have dated – someone they met through online community websites.
And over a third have got back in touch with an old flame through the sites.
One in ten have even had gone a step further and had an affair or a one-night stand with someone they met via a social networking site.
A spokesman for internet market research company http://www.OnePoll.com, which carried out the study, said: “Traditionally the pub used to be a central meeting place where many couples met across the bar and got to know each other.
“Now social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace have taken over as the dating hot spot with many singletons finding love online.
“The websites also seem to be a breeding ground for rekindling old romances and the results also show that many affairs begin by tracing ex-lovers too.”
The poll of 3,000 20 to 40 year olds revealed that almost half (46 per cent) believe it’s now easier to meet someone through social networking sites than in the flesh.
And 57 per cent of those admitted they are more confident communicating with a potential suitor online.
Over a third (39 per cent) said they preferred the method as it enabled them to get to know someone before actually meeting them.
And 27 per cent felt using social networking sites cut down the time to find love compared to having to having to meet prospective partners face to face.
Yet 44 per cent agreed it’s now considered “cooler” to find love via online community sites than traditional means.
This could explain why over a quarter surveyed confessed to purposely uploading nice pictures of themselves in the hope that potential love interests will spot their profile.
And three quarters of Brits believe there are fewer stigmas attached to meeting a love-match via Facebook, Friends Reunited or Bebo than normal internet dating websites like match.com.
A spokesman from http://www.OnePoll.com added: “You can see why the appeal for finding love through social networking sites is so strong.
“You can see someone’s profile online, trawl through their personal pictures and see messages from their friends – creating a far greater impression of what that person is like than a traditional internet dating site.
“The fact that almost half of the nation now considers finding love via online community sites cooler than traditional means proves the stigma that used to be attached to online dating is becoming a thing of the past.”
Facebook is really becoming popular and I’m addicted with it.
Posted by Andrea Bock on 04/21 at 01:57 AM