Potpourri of Facts
A study by a German Internet dating site (www.single.de) found that older singles did better with online dating than younger folks. The figures quoted in a posting on IOL Technology are a bit confusing, but interesting. The site (which has more than 2.4 million visitors monthly) found that 15% of people age 40 to 50 said they had found a lasting partner on the Internet, while the figure was 11% for those 31 to 40 and only 10% for those 21 to 30.
Buried in an article in Forbes were these figures from Jupiter Research: Online dating is a $494 million industry, expected to reach $642 by 2008. The big three dating sites (Match.com, Yahoo! Personals and eHarmony) account from between 2/3’s and 3/4’s of the total online dating traffic.
Also quoted in the Forbes article was the results of a February 2005 survey by WeddingChannel.com that 12% of engaged or recently married couples met online.
From Your Romance Coach, Kathryn Lord
