(Online Dating Industry Journal) The Oxford Internet Institute ad the University of Oxford did a study of 2401 married individuals and 929 couples in the UK about their Internet habits. As it relates to online dating, the following was revealed in the study:
6% of married Internet users first met their partner online. They were most likely to have met through an online dating site (34%), chat room (19%) or instant messaging site (18%).
The couples that first met online were more likely to have an age gap of greater than six years (gap > 6yrs for 39% of the ‘met-online’ couples’; gap > 6yrs for 24% of the ‘met-offline’ couples).
Survey respondents said they would be ‘unhappy’ about their partner doing the following online with somebody else: falling in love (97%); having cyber-sex (94%); disclosing intimate details (92%); communicating relationship troubles to others (89%); sharing personal information about the other partner (88%); flirting (85%).
Joe's Comments
What wasn't told to us in the methodology of the research was the age of those surveyed and the length of time they were married. If people were married more than 15 years, then the questions about meeting on the Internet wouldn't apply to them and thus would not give us a true sampling of Internet habits when it comes to meeting your partner.
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