Who and why dating online?

Where to meet?
On the Internet there are a lot of services through which you can get to know the other person: dating service, forums, conferences, ICQ, IRC, chat rooms, virtual clubs, on-line games. Each of these services continues to be shaped and formed his own group of users. In November and December 2000 and later, in December 2002, the project «InterZnak» surveyed, whose purpose was to identify preferences in the use of an online service for singles.

Polls have shown the following result: Least popular were acquaintances through forums and conferences (5%), more popular - through chat rooms dating (18-27%) and ICQ (16-20%), well, first in popularity took dating site (47 -55%), which in fact is not surprising, especially for the past and created. This book is mainly about dating is going through these specialized sites. As for other services, the possibilities of dating through them will be briefly written in a separate chapter of this book.

Who met?
Today, thousands of people use the service in RuNet dating services. However, when in the early 90′s. Internet first came to Russia, the main users were male, and one female member had already 4 male person. In the early 2000′s. The situation has changed dramatically, women in the network became much more. According to statistics, most of the famous sites of female dating profiles prevailed over the number of male (so for Love.Mail ratio of female to male questionnaire was 1.12:1, ie by 9 female profiles have 8 male). Thus, the probability to meet in RuNet with someone of the opposite sex has increased substantially. Learn more about rich gay men.

According to an opinion poll conducted by the project «InterZnak» in late 2002, the age of the bulk of introducing the Internet varies from 18 to 40 years (see Figure 1). The greatest part of young people from 18 to 25 years (41%) and mature people from 31 to 35 years (20%). Seen cases users, to whom up to 16 (8%), and even elderly people aged over 46 years (3%).

Is it possible to give a social portrait of these people? Do they have anything in common or are they completely different? Let’s try. Undoubtedly, all these people have to be educated enough to be able to work on the computer, at least at the user level. Plus, they must have sufficient funds to pay for access to the Internet. True, it is worth noting that a lot of people use the Internet at work (38%), but not on every job possible. If possible, it is usually fairly high-paying job. Although there are exceptions, such as research institutes and universities, where access to the Internet provides administration facilities, and the people as the salary paid literally pennies, but there are not many users of the total. Is it still possible to add something to your avatar? Perhaps not. Everything else - the habits, character, attitude, tastes, pastimes, etc., etc. will vary considerably. Thus, all that can be said is that the user of a dating site - people educated enough to work on a computer, and often has quite a decent income. Otherwise, people, introducing the Internet are very different, and certainly among them you will find many interesting and you personally.

Why learn?
Most people are acquainted through the Internet in order to further a real relationship (81.2%). This is confirmed by the results of the answers to the questions: “Have you ever loved a virtual,” and “you have virtual sex.” The number of people somehow known the virtual intimacy does not exceed 26% of all respondents. Roughly one in four experienced the sense of “virtual love”. However, it is not so little, but apparently, the disappointment of this knowledge is so great that, for example, to do a “virtual sex” again decided only 3% of all respondents. At the same time, despite the virtual indifference to the feelings and relationships, a very large number of respondents said that with the advent of the Internet they have their lives changed for the better (88%), and absolutely no one has brought the worst internet life. This suggests that the network dating bring diversity in people’s lives, saturate it with paint, make it more interesting, “You can finally feel in the thick of things, to say that you are doing everything to find love. You meet new people, learn a lot for yourself, perhaps, looking for his path in life. “