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Some facts about online dating
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The majority of online daters are in between 18 and 34 years old.
One in a hundred singles that had a partner once found it through online dating.
The reasons for singles to visit online dating sites are ‘curiousity’, ‘fun’, ‘to get to know someone’ and ‘boredom’.
A quart of the online daters that used online dating one or more times did register for a paid dating site at least once.
The majority of online daters describes their experience with online dating as ‘good nor bad’.
One third of the online daters managed to get at least one relationship through online dating.
Almost a quart of the registered online daters arrange a real life meeting after the first email contact.
According to four out of ten of the registered online daters that made a meeting in real life, the last meeting resulted in a one night stand or sexual relationship. In 7 percent this meeting resulted in a relationship.
Findings from: TNS Nipo, ´Online dating: aantrekkelijk of niet?’, ocktober 2004, for Parship.nl.