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Online Dating: Log on for a Cyber Date! |
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Written by Deborrah Cooper
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Whatever happened to REAL roses, romantic candlelight dinners, footsie under the table, and nose nuzzling? These days folks don’t date, don’t speak, and may not even see each other in person before deciding they are madly in love! Welcome to the world of Internet matchmaking, online dating and cyber romance. Over the last 15 years, Internet-based dating has gained in popularity as a medium to meet romantic partners. What’s behind the phenomenal growth of online love affairs?
LOG ON FOR A CYBERDATE
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Welcome to the world of Internet matchmaking, online dating and cyber romance. Over the last five years, Internet-based dating has gained in popularity as a medium to meet romantic partners. What’s behind the phenomenal growth of online love affairs?
Only Desperate People Do It!?
Who uses the Internet as a tool for matchmaking? People of all ages, races, and socioeconomic backgrounds, although you can bet that most people with their own computers and Web access have higher-than-average income and education. Busy single professionals acknowledge having few opportunities to meet other available bachelors and bachelorettes outside the nightclub "meat market" environment.
A reader asks: "What are your thoughts on meeting someone you've been chatting with online? I'm a mature, intelligent woman in my 30s who is single and looking for new ways to meet single men. There are some guys I KNOW I would never meet or give my phone number to, but what about the ones that seem like decent men?"
 Just about everyone seems decent on the other side of a keyboard! I believe the Internet, if used effectively, can be a great tool for screening out the freaks, weirdoes, neurotics and game players, and screening in people that live in your general vicinity that you might never otherwise meet.
A believer in online lover writes: “I found my soul mate online and am the happiest that I've ever been. I also have two friends that met online and they’ve found their true loves also. If you truly want joy and happiness, I suggest that from the beginning you be honest and open. That’s how I started and now I know that if I had not been as honest with myself and him, we would not have each other.”
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