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27 Exciting Online Dating Demographics

It seems like online dating sites are popping up everywhere today. Niche sites that allow Christians to meet each other or farmers to connect have made an impact on society. Even sites like Ashley Madison, which encourages hook-ups for married folks, has been seeing increases of use. With so many people connected to a computer, online dating makes sense.

38% of those who are currently single and actively looking for a relationship have used online dating sites or mobile dating apps.

Online Dating Facts

Many people today know of someone that has found a significant other through a dating website. Although online dating was greeting with skepticism when it was first introduced, the general attitudes toward the concept have changed – especially now that social networking sites like Facebook have such a prominent position in the lives of people.

  • 11%. That’s the number of internet users who say that they have personally used an online dating site.
  • 9% of adults today have attempted to find a partner at some point in their life through an online dating service.
  • The percentage of app users who say that they have installed an online dating app to their smartphone: 7%.
  • 22% of 25-34 year olds and 17% of 35-44 year olds are online daters.
  • Two-thirds of online daters have accepted a date with someone that they met through an online dating service.
  • 1 in 4 people who have used online dating services say that they found their spouse or a long term partner because of the website they used.
  • 59% of people today agree that an online dating site is a good place to meet people.
  • Only 1 in 5 people today view the use of an online dating site as an act of desperation.

The demands of modern life keep everyone busier than ever before. Although high levels of activity are a choice that is being made, sometimes income needs force this choice upon us. Online dating helps those who are consistently busy to still have the chance to find someone and schedule in some time to get to know others. This is likely why the acceptance of online dating is higher now than in the past. People who are single are finding it difficult to get out into the local scene on their own to meet and greet people. Online dating allows people to meet and greet whenever they have a few moments to spare at any time of day.

9 Online Dating Statistics You Should Know

  • There are over 54 million single people in the United States right now. Over 41 million of them have tried online dating at least once.
  • There are over 15 million eHarmony members right now.
  • 21.5 million. That’s the number of members that Match.com is able to claim.
  • An eHarmony survey requires members to answer 400 specific questions about themselves so that matches can be made.
  • The amount of time a courtship lasts before a marriage when a couple meets online: 18.5 months.
  • 10% of online dating site members leave the community within the first 3 months of signing up an account.
  • Men [52.4%] outnumber women [47.6%] in terms of using an online dating site regularly.
  • Half of all online daters say that a person’s physical characteristics are the most important factor in selecting a person to date.
  • Men lie most about: Age, Height, and Income. Women lie most about: Weight, Physical Build, and Age.

What’s amazing about the online dating community is that so many people expect to be able to form a relationship through the use of lies. If men are lying about their height with their online profile, then won’t a date notice this fact if they two meet in person? And if a woman is lying about her body build, isn’t this going to be noticed as well? Age is an easy enough thing to fool people on, but just like any other relationship that is formed through “traditional” methods, a foundation of lies isn’t going to create a stable relationship. It is quite possible that these lies are the reason behind 1 in 5 people believing that online daters are desperate.

Online Dating Is Still A Relatively New Trend

  • 5% of Americans who are currently married or in a long-term partnership met their partner somewhere online.
  • For couples that have been together for less than 10 years, 11% of them met online somewhere.
  • 57% of Americans with an annual household income of $75,000 or more know someone who uses online dating.
  • 42% of female online daters have experienced an uncomfortable contact that occurred through a dating site.
  • 22% of online daters have asked someone to help them create or review their profile and women are 2x more likely than men to ask for this help.
  • Just 1% of those 65 and older found a long-term relationship with the help of an online dating site.
  • 24% of internet users have searched for information online about someone they dated in the past.
  • 47% of internet users ages 18-24 are using online dating sites and other services to flirt online. The 25-34 age demographic isn’t far behind at 40%.

Social networks and online dating help people to connect quite easily, but they also help to prevent people from letting go of relationships as well. The percentage of people that use the internet to “check-up” on people from the past has doubled in the last decade. Is it any wonder why women feel like they are receiving uncomfortable messages from potential dates while using an online service or dating app? It’s so easy to follow someone today to see what they are doing. It’s even easier to reconnect with past flames online. Although couples meeting online and finding long term stability is still relatively rare, this ease of information access will likely change that fact dramatically – and sometimes even revive an old relationship.

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